Table 2. Frequency of studies reporting psychotic symptoms and types of symptoms according to the etiology of dementia.
Type of dementia | Psychotic symptoms (%) | Delusions (%) | Hallucinations (%) | Misidentifications (%) |
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Alzheimer’s disease | 82 | 2–68.4 | 3–32 | 5.2–81.6 |
Dementia with Lewy bodies | 71 | 9.5–54.8 | 11–79.5 | 13.7–57.1 |
Vascular dementia | 60 | 12.5–50 | 15.5–27 | 6.8–46 |
Frontotemporal dementia | 66 | 3–25 | 3–25 | 0 |