National Guideline Clearinghouse | Recommendations on screening for cognitive impairment in older adults.

National Guideline Clearinghouse | Recommendations on screening for cognitive impairment in older adults.

Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care

• Recommendations on screening for cognitive impairment in older adults. This updates a previously published guideline summary.

Guideline Title

Recommendations on screening for cognitive impairment in older adults.

Bibliographic Source(s)

Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care. Recommendations on screening for cognitive impairment in older adults. CMAJ. 2016 Jan 5;188(1):37-46. [40 references] PubMed

Guideline Status

This is the current release of the guideline.

This guideline updates a previous version: Patterson CJ, Gass DA. Screening for cognitive impairment and dementia in the elderly. Can J Neurol Sci. 2001 Feb;28(Suppl 1):S42-51. [94 references]

This guideline meets NGC's 2013 (revised) inclusion criteria.

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Recommendations on screening for cognitive impairment in older adults. - PubMed - NCBI

CMAJ. 2016 Jan 5;188(1):37-46. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.141165. Epub 2015 Nov 30.

Recommendations on screening for cognitive impairment in older adults.

Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care, Pottie K1, Rahal R1, Jaramillo A1, Birtwhistle R1, Thombs BD1, Singh H1, Connor Gorber S1, Dunfield L1,Shane A1, Bacchus M1, Bell N1, Tonelli M1.

Author information

PMID:

 

26622001

 

[PubMed - in process] 

PMCID:

 

PMC4695353

 [Available on 2017-01-05]