Table 1.

Assessments for deriving a 10/66 diagnosis of dementia

Battery of Cognitive tests

(1) The Community Screening Instrument for Dementia (CSI’D’) COGSCORE incorporating the CERAD animal naming verbal fluency task. (CERAD-Consortium to Establish a register for Alzheimer’s Disease) (2) The modified CERAD 10 word list learning task with delayed recall (3) Informant interview, the CSI’D’ RELSCORE, for evidence of cognitive and functional decline

Instruments for diagnosis of dementia

(1) Battery of cognitive tests (listed above) (2) A structured clinical mental state interview, the Geriatric Mental State, which applies a computer algorithm (3) An extended informant interview, the History and Aetiology Schedule-Dementia Diagnosis and subtype (4) The NEUROEX, a brief fully structured neurological assessment (5) Behavioral and Psychological symptoms: assessed by Neuropsychiatric Inventory