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  2. Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly

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    In community samples, cutoff scores for likely dementia have ranged from 3.3 and above to 3.6 and above, while in patient samples the cutoff scores have ranged from 3.4 and above to 4.0 and above. [3] To improve the detection of dementia, the IQCODE can be used in combination with the Mini-Mental State Examination.

  3. Comprehensive geriatric assessment - Wikipedia

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    Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) is a process used by healthcare practitioners to assess the status of older people who might have frailty in order to optimize their subsequent management. These people often have complex, multiple and interdependent problems ( multimorbidity ) which make their care more challenging than in younger ...

  4. Saint Louis University Mental Status Exam - Wikipedia

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    The Saint Louis University Mental Status (SLUMS) Exam is a brief screening assessment used to detect cognitive impairment. [1] It was developed in 2006 at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine Division of Geriatric Medicine, in affiliation with a Veterans' Affairs medical center. [2]

  5. Questions to Ask When You're Diagnosed With Dementia - AOL

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    Across the U.S. this year, about 500,000 people will learn they have Alzheimer's disease. Dementia has many types, including Alzheimer's, frontotemporal dementia, Lewy body disease and others. For ...

  6. New question-based test may help spot early signs of dementia

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    Researchers estimate that more than 55 million people around the world live with dementia. Dementia is an umbrella term for diseases affecting a person’s abilities to remember, think, and ...

  7. About 4% of US adults age 65 and older have a dementia ...

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    Some 4% of U.S. adults aged 65 and older say they have been diagnosed with dementia, a rate that reached 13% for those at least 85-years old, according to a report of a national survey released on ...

  8. Mini–mental state examination - Wikipedia

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    The MMSE may help differentiate different types of dementias. People with Alzheimer's disease may score significantly lower on orientation to time and place as well as recall, compared to those who have dementia with Lewy bodies, vascular dementia, or Parkinson's disease dementia. [25] [26] [27]

  9. Abbreviated mental test score - Wikipedia

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    The following questions are put to the patient. Each question correctly answered scores one point. A score of 7–8 or less suggests cognitive impairment at the time of testing, [4] although further and more formal tests are necessary to confirm a diagnosis of dementia, delirium or other causes of cognitive impairment. Culturally-specific ...