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KMID : 1003620140060020035
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Journal of Korean Aging Health Friendly Policy Association
2014 Volume.6 No. 2 p.35 ~ p.43
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New Assessment Screening Tool for Mild Cognitive Impairment and early dementia: DemTect
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Choi Hyun-Se
Lee Doo-Ho
Kim Eu-Jin
Yang Yeong-Ae
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Abstract
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Introduction : In this paper, We introduce a new cognitive screening assessment tool DemTect. It is designed sensitive enough to find a mild dementia and mild cognitive impairment.
Subject : DemTect was first published in 2000 in a German version. It is cognitive screening tools, including the United States, which is used in many countries around the world. Five tasks were included in the DemTect: a word list, a number transcoding task, a word fluency task, digit span reverse, and delayed recall of the word list. The DemTect helps in deciding whether cognitive performance is adequate for age (13?18 points), or whether MCI (9-12 points) or dementia
(8 points or below) should be suspected.
Conclusion : DemTect is highly sensitive screening tool to identify patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and patients with dementia in the early stages of the disease. DemTect screening tool running time is shorter than Mini-Mental State Examination-K (MMSE-K). Also it does not affect the learning effect by repeated use. So we can able to use to sharpen the diagnosis of dementia. We should publish DemTect Korean version and DemTect which is used many
countries needs much more work to be done.
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KEYWORD
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Dementia, Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), DemTect, Assessment Tool
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