Old age (without mention of debility) - in the ICD-10-CM Index
Annotation Back-References in the 2025 ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries
Applicable Clinical Terms Definitions
Dementia: An acquired organic mental disorder with loss of intellectual abilities of sufficient severity to interfere with social or occupational functioning. The dysfunction is multifaceted and involves memory, behavior, personality, judgment, attention, spatial relations, language, abstract thought, and other executive functions. The intellectual decline is usually progressive, and initially spares the level of consciousness.