Dementia: Patients
Commons · Question 23678 · Tabled 13 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Question
Asked by Rebecca Smith
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the dementia diagnosis rate was for people aged under 65 who had developed symptoms on 13 January 2025; and if he will publish a monthly estimate of this rate within national primary care deme
Answer
Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 16 Jan 2025
The dementia diagnosis rate is not calculated for patients aged under 65 years old. This is because the numbers of patients known to have dementia in the sample population age groups comprising the zero- to 64-year-old age range is not large enough for re...