The Informant AD8 Can Discriminate Patients with Dementia From Healthy Control Participants in an Asian Older Cohort

The informant-AD8 (i-AD8) was found to be reliable in detecting cognitive impairment and dementia in tertiary and primary health care settings. We evaluated the discriminability of the i-AD8, as compared to other brief cognitive measures, and its combination with the 5-minute Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and Mini-Cog in detecting very mild dementia in an Asian older cohort.

Source: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association - January 17, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: Cheuk Ni Kan, Liwen Zhang, Ching-Yu Cheng, Tien Yin Wong, Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian, Christopher Li-Hsian Chen, Xin Xu Tags: Original Study-Brief Report Source Type: research