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Dementia

Commons · Question 71535 · Tabled 29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 4 Sep 2025

Question

Asked by Tom Gordon

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve the quality of national primary care data on Young Onset Dementia.

Answer

Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 4 Sep 2025

Young onset dementia is defined as dementia diagnosed under the age of 65.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 group...