ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders, World Health Organization, Geneva, 1992


F00.1 Dementia In Alzheimer's Disease With Late Onset

Definition | Diagnostic Guidelines | DCR-10 Criteria

Definition

Dementia in Alzheimer's disease where the clinically observable onset is after the age of 65 years and usually in the late 70s or thereafter, with a slow progression, and usually with memory impairment as the principal feature.

Diagnostic Guidelines

As for dementia, described above, with attention to the presence or absence of features differentiating the disorder from the early-onset subtype (F00.0).

Includes:

* Alzheimer's disease, type 1
* senile dementia, Alzheimer's type

 

DCR-10 Criteria

Sorry, no criteria yet

 


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