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MOH Clinical Practice Guidelines for Dementia recommend validated instruments for use in clinical or research contexts, typically completing within 30 minutes by healthcare professionals. ACT on Alzheimer’s® provides guidance videos and summarizes each instrument’s strengths, limitations, diagnostic accuracy, and psychometric properties, including permissions for use and key usage considerations.","Cognitive Assessments and Screening Tests  \nOne of the key features of dementia is cognitive impairment, which usually occurs progressively. In light of the progressive nature of dementia, cognitive assessment and screening tools are used not only to identify individuals who are showing signs and symptoms of dementia, but also to monitor the progress of cognitive deterioration.  \nThe MOH Clinical Practice Guidelines for Dementia recommends the following instruments for screening a person’s cognitive status. Many of these instruments are used in clinical or research settings. They are not too time-consuming (can be completed under 30 minutes), are used by healthcare professionals, and have been reviewed and validated in several settings.1 However, it should be noted that these tools are not sufficient to diagnose dementia. To obtain a definitive diagnosis, a person should still be required to be referred to memory clinics and medical professionals for further evaluation.  \nACT on Alzheimer’s® has created a series of videos to guide healthcare professionals on screening, assessment, delivery of diagnosis of dementia, and care coordination. They include an explanation on the usage of the Mini-Cog, SLUMS and MoCA assessments.2 Click here to watch the videos.  \nThe strengths and weaknesses, diagnostic accuracy, and psychometric properties for each instrument are summarised in the table below.  \n\n| Tool | No. of Items | Strengths & Limitations | Diagnostic Accuracy and/or Psychometric Properties | Permission to Use |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly (IQCODE)3 | 26 | Strengths:\u003Cbr>● Relatively unaffected by education and pre-morbid abilities or by proficiency in the culture’s dominant language.4\u003Cbr>Limitations:\u003Cbr>● As it is completed by an ‘informant’who knows the subject, the scores can be affected by informant characteristics such as the mental health of the informant and the quality of the relationship between the informant and the subject. 4 | Multiple studies have established:\u003Cbr>Good reliability:\u003Cbr>● High internal consistency, with Cronbach’s α ranging from .93 to .97; 4 and\u003Cbr>● Good inter-rater reliability with retest kappa at .96 over three days and .75 over one year. 4\u003Cbr>Good validity:\u003Cbr>● Factor analysis results suggested that the scale measures a broad, single factor of cognitive decline. 4\u003Cbr>● The scale validity reflects past cognitive decline, performs as well as a screening test for dementia as other conventional cognitive screening tests, predicts incident dementia, and correlates with a wide range of cognitive tests, particularly those measuring the impaired range of ability and those measuring skills that deteriorate with aging and dementia (episodic memory and mental speed) . 4 | Cite the developers to use the scale. The developers also appreciate being kept informed of research projects which make use of it. No other permissions are required. |\n\n\n| Tool | No. of Items | Strengths & Limitations | Diagnostic Accuracy and/or Psychometric Properties | Permission to Use |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Brief Informant Screening Test5\u003Cbr>(A single-item informant report of memory problem [IRMP] and a 4-item Instrumental Activities of Daily Living [4IADL)) | 5 | Strengths:\u003Cbr>● Simple, easy to use, and can be completed quickly; and\u003Cbr>● Useful in screening for Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and early Alzheimer’s disease (MCI-AD) .5\u003Cbr>Limitations:\u003Cbr>● Limited research that studied the psychometric properties of the test. | Test sensitivity and specificity:\u003Cbr>On elderly Chinese Singaporeans, the Brief Informant Screening Test (combining the IRMP and 4IADL) could correctly identify:\u003Cbr>● 86.5% and 85.7% of people with MCI and MCI-AD, respectively (test sensitivity); and\u003Cbr>● 79.5% and 85.2% of those tested as not having MCI and MCI-AD, respectively (test specificity) .5 | Cite the developers to use the scale. No other permissions are required. |\n| Elder","cbCaikPIJHid5dzv","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikPIJHid5dzv","pdf",333369,15,"English","en",105,"# Cognitive assessment and screening in dementia\n## MOH recommended screening instruments\n## Guidance videos for healthcare professionals\n## Summary of tools: strengths, limitations, accuracy, and permissions","[{\"question\":\"Why are cognitive assessment and screening tools used for dementia?\",\"answer\":\"They help identify individuals showing signs and symptoms of dementia and also monitor the progress of cognitive deterioration over time. However, they are not sufficient to diagnose dementia definitively.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the MOH Clinical Practice Guidelines recommend?\",\"answer\":\"They recommend specific validated instruments to screen a person’s cognitive status. 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