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Cognitive
Assessment
1. Mini-Cog Brief
screening tool for cognitive impairment.
2. The Blessed
Orientation-Memory-Concentration
(BOMC) Test
3. Saint Louis University Mental status
Examination (SLUMS)
Tariq
SH, Tumosa N, Chibnall JT, Perry MH 3rd, Morley JE.
(2006). Comparison of the Saint Louis University mental status
examination and the mini-mental state examination for detecting
dementia and mild neurocognitive disorder--a pilot study. Am J Geriatr
Psychiatry. 14(11):900-10.
4. Mini
Mental State Exam (MMSE) is not in the
public domain.
Scoring: 25-30=Normal,
21-24=Mild
Cognitive Impairment (MCI), 16-20=Moderate, <16=Severe
5. Montreal Cognitive
Assessment (MoCA) Free online with
registration: Instructions,
Test (English)
Scoring: 26
-30=Normal, 19-25=Mild cognitive
impairment (MCI), 11-21:
Alzheimer’s
Disease
6. Global
Deterioration
Scale (assessed
by healthcare provider)
Delirum
Screening
7. Delirium assessment: "CAM"
Confusion Assessment Method (assessed
by healthcare provider)
Training video for using the CAM - (watch up to 5'12")
Clinical Skills - Delirium Assessment. University of Dundee
Medical School. Dundee Scotland. Accessed 8-5-2020.
Pain Assessment in the presence of dementia
8.
Pain
Thermometer - self reporting scale
Uses no words or numbers. Note: this clinical
method that has not been validated by research.
9. Pain
Assessment in Advance Dementia (PAINAD) (assessed
by healthcare provider)
10. Horgas (2008). Pain Assessment in
People with
Dementia.
Horgas A., Miller L.
(2008). AJN
108(7), 63-70.
Depression
11. Two-Question
Depression Screen
- "During the past month
have you
often been bothered by feeling little interest or pleasure in
doing
things?"
- “During
the past month have you often been bothered by feeling down,
depressed, or hopeless?"
A
positive resonse to both questions has a specificity of 57%
Whooley
MA, Avins
AL, Miranda J, Browner WS. (1997). Case-finding
instruments
for depression. Two questions are as good as many. J Gen
Intern
Med. 12(7):439-45.
12. Geriatric Depression Scale
- 0-9:
Normal
- 10-19:
Mild Depression
- 20-30:
Severe Depression
13. Groningen Meander Walking Test: A
Dynamic
Walking Test for Older Adults With Dementia.
Bossers WJR,
van der Woude LHV, Boersma F, Scherder EJA, van Heuvelen MJG. (2014).
The Groningen Meander Walking Test: A Dynamic Walking Test for Older
Adults With Dementia. PHYS THER. 94(2):262-272.
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