This is from QOF 2014/15.
http://www.nhsemployers.org/~/media/Employers/Documents/Primary%20care%20con
tracts/QOF/2014-15/14-15%20General%20Medical%20Services%20contract%20-%20Qua
lity%20and%20Outcomes%20Framework.pdf
or
http://tinyurl.com/qhr5u32
"Dementia is a syndrome characterised by an insidious but ultimately
catastrophic progressive global deterioration in intellectual function and
is a main cause of late-life disability. The prevalence of dementia
increases with age and is estimated to be approximately 20 per cent at the
age of 80. *The annual incidence of vascular dementia is 1.2/100 overall
person years at risk and is the same in all age groups.*
Alzheimers disease accounts for 50-75 per cent of cases of dementia."
(my emphasis)
Can anyone give me a reference for the annual incidence of vascular dementia
being the same at all ages?
And how would you make the diagnosis under, say, 5 yrs old?
Mary Hawking
Retired from NHS on 31.3.13 because of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
"thinking - independent thinking - is to humans as swimming is to cats: we
can do it if we really have to." Mark Earles on Radio 4
blog http://maryhawking.wordpress.com/ And Fred!
http://primaryhealthinfo.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/can-integrated-care-satisf
y-all-of-freds-needs-including-patient-empowerment/
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