Table 5. Most Common Diagnosed Dementia Subtypes among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries, 68+ years, with Dementia: 2013 (N = 3,110,654).
Top 10 Dementia Subtype Diagnoses1 | Frequency | Percent |
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Dementia, not otherwise specified (NOS) | 1,432,753 | 46.1 |
Alzheimer's disease (AD)/Dementia NOS | 902,727 | 29.0 |
AD/Vascular dementia/Dementia NOS | 195,499 | 6.3 |
Vascular dementia/Dementia NOS | 156,422 | 5.0 |
Alzheimer's disease | 139,833 | 4.5 |
Lewy body dementia/Dementia NOS | 64,338 | 2.1 |
AD/Lewy body dementia/Dementia NOS | 62,345 | 2.0 |
Vascular dementia | 52,575 | 1.7 |
AD/Vascular dementia/Lewy body dementia/Dementia NOS | 17,041 | 0.6 |
AD/Frontotemporal dementia/Dementia NOS | 10,523 | 0.3 |
Notes:
Dementia is identified by any dementia diagnoses codes on the claim.