Dementia history and symptoms
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History and Symptoms
- Medication history
- Abbreviated mental status examination
- Thorough history needs to be performed to rule out any underlying disease etiology.
One minute screening tests, such as the inability to name 15 or more animals in one minute, predicts the presence of dementia.[1]
The single best finding may be disoriented to year.[2]
A meta-analysis found that the Mini-Cog test compares will to other methods to detect dementia.[3]
References
- ↑ Canning SJ, Leach L, Stuss D, Ngo L, Black SE (2004). "Diagnostic utility of abbreviated fluency measures in Alzheimer disease and vascular dementia". Neurology. 62 (4): 556–62. PMID 14981170.
- ↑ O'Keeffe E, Mukhtar O, O'Keeffe ST (2011). "Orientation to time as a guide to the presence and severity of cognitive impairment in older hospital patients". J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 82 (5): 500–4. doi:10.1136/jnnp.2010.214817. PMID 20852313.
- ↑ Tsoi KK, Chan JY, Hirai HW, Wong SY, Kwok TC (2015). "Cognitive Tests to Detect Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis". JAMA Intern Med. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.2152. PMID 26052687.