Resources for the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment based

Proactive and Personalised Primary Care of the Elderly

GPCOG

General Practitoner's Assessment of Cognition

Purpose : GP Screening Tool for Dementia

 

Admin time :  10 min. 

User Friendly :  High

Administered by: GP

 

Content : There are two components: a cognitive assessment conducted with the patient, and an informant questionnaire (only considered necessary if the results of the cognitive section are equivocal, ie score 5-8 inclusive). Results >8 or < 5 on the GPCOG patient section were assumed to be cognitively intact or impaired, respectively. For patients requiring a informant questionnaire, scores of 3 or less out of 6 in this section indicates cognitive impairment.

 

Author :  (Brodaty H, 2002)

This Tool is used in Cognitive Decline

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Cognitive Decline is one of 4 sub-domains of the  

Psychological Assessment

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The PsychologicalAssessment is one of 8 domains of the

Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA)

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