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2. The 7 Stages of Dementia: What They Are & What To Expect - AOL

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   Pre-dementia or early-stage dementia (stages 1, 2, and 3). In this initial phase, a person can still live independently and may not exhibit obvious memory loss or have any difficulty completing ...

3. A New 5-Minute Test For Dementia Is Here—Would You Take It?

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   An estimated 5.8 million people in the U.S. have Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, but the condition can be tricky to diagnose.Patients usually are put through a series of tests, and it ...

4. 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 ...

5. Clinical Dementia Rating - Wikipedia

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   Therefore, early and accurate diagnosis of dementia and staging can be essential to proper clinical care. Without the ability to reliably assess dementia across the board, the misuse of anti-dementia compounds could have negative consequences, such as patients receiving the wrong medication, or not receiving treatment in the early stages of ...

6. ADAS-Cog - Wikipedia

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   The Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive Subscale (ADAS-Cog) is a brief neuropsychological assessment used to assess the severity of cognitive symptoms of dementia. It is one of the most widely used cognitive scales in clinical trials [1] and is considered to be the “gold standard” for assessing antidementia treatments. [2]

7. One in four people with dementia ‘suffer symptoms for two ...

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   The charity’s poll of 1,019 dementia sufferers and their carers found that confusing dementia symptoms with getting old (42%) was the number one reason it took people so long to get a diagnosis.