Diagnosing Dementia

The first step in testing memory performance and cognitive health involves standard questions and tasks. Research has shown that dementia cannot be reliably diagnosed without using the standard tests below, completing them fully, and recording all the answers; however, diagnosis also takes account of other factors.

Cognitive DementiaTests

Today's cognitive dementia tests are widely used and have been verified as a reliable way of indicating dementia. They have changed little since being established in the early 1970s. The abbreviated mental test score has ten questions, which include:
What is your age?
What is the time, to the nearest hour?
What is the year?
What is your date of birth?

Each correct answer gets one point; scoring six points or fewer suggests cognitive impairment.
The General Practitioner Assessment of Cognition (GPCOG) test includes an added element for recording the observations of relatives and caregivers.

Designed for doctors, this sort of test may be the first formal assessment of a person's mental ability. 
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