The Incidence of Recorded Delirium Episodes Before and After Dementia Diagnosis: Differences Between Dementia With Lewy Bodies and Alzheimer's Disease.

Objectives: To describe the incidence of delirium recording before and after a diagnosis of dementia is established in patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and compare findings to a matched cohort of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Setting And Participants: A cohort of patients with dementia from a large mental health and dementia care database in South London, linked to hospitalization and mortality data.

Hospitalization in people with dementia with Lewy bodies: Frequency, duration, and cost implications.

Introduction: Increased hospitalization is a major component of dementia impact on individuals and cost, but has rarely been studied in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). Our aim was to describe the risk and duration of hospital admissions in patients with DLB, and compare these to those in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and the general population.

Methods: A large database of mental health and dementia care in South London was used to assemble a cohort of patients diagnosed with DLB.