Resources for the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment based
Proactive and Personalised Primary Care of the Elderly
SLUMS
Saint Louis University Mental Status Exam
Purpose : Screen individuals to look for the presence of cognitive deficits, and to identify changes in cognition over time.
Admin time : 10-15 min
User Friendly : High
Administered by : Healthcare provider or self administered
Content : The SLUMS consists of 11 items, and measures aspects of cognition that include orientation, short-term memory, calculations, the naming of animals, the clock drawing test, and recognition of geometric figures.
Author : Tariq SH et al, 2006
Copyright: Public domain
Translations: SLUMS is available in other languages, access
SLUMS
SLUMS - online
Clock Drawing Test
SLUMS
Advantages:
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Free to use
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Suggests cutoff scores for minimal cognitive impairment and dementia.
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Takes into account potential education effects by providing different cutoff scores for those with less than a high school education and those with high school or more education.
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The instructions are standardized, allowing for ease of use by clinic staff.
Disadvantages:
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Paucity of psychometric data regarding its validity and reliability
Accuracy :
the SLUMS test shows a strong discriminatory power in differentiating dementia (sensitivity: 94.74%, specificity:
87.18%) from cognitive impairment (sensitivity: 82.86%, specificity: 86.96%). (Szcześniak D, 2016)
SLUMS is superior to the MMSE in identifying people with milder cognitive problems.
SLUMS training video
This Tool is used in Dementia
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Dementia is one of 4 sub-domains of the
Psychological Assessment
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The Psychological Assessment is one of 8 domains of the
Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA)
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