Brief screening scale for dementia

It is an effective dementia screening scale suitable for China.

This scale is a widely used dementia scale, including 30 items, including 4 items of common sense/characteristic understanding, 3 items of short-term memory and English.

3 items of speech comprehension, 3 items of calculation/attention, 5 items of position orientation, 4 items of time orientation, 3 items of immediate memory, 3 items of object naming, and some cognitive functions.

Precautions before evaluation:

1, year/day: According to the solar or lunar calendar, the answer is correct.

2, five cents, pen container, key ring: when you recall, you don't need to follow the order.

3. Continuous subtraction: if the last calculation is wrong and the next calculation is correct, the latter can get 1.

4. Command understanding: According to the instructions, after the three commands are completed, please try to execute them.

Results:

Total score, range 0? 30 points. The demarcation value is illiteracy group 16, primary school group 19 [years of education], secondary school and above 19 [years of education? 6 years] 22 points.

Dementia simple screening scale