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The process and requirements for a formal diagnosis of dementia, including comprehensive in-person evaluation and neurocognitive testing.
Public debate has sharply divided over whether Donald Trump “suffers from dementia”: multiple clinicians and commentators point to behaviours they say are consistent with dementia—disinhibition, word-...
produces a 30-point total score and six domain-specific index scores (Memory, Executive, Attention, Language, Visuospatial, Orientation), and recent work shows those index scores can add useful signal...
A positive amyloid PET in an older adult without symptoms means the scan has detected fibrillar amyloid plaques—an AD-related pathology that increases lifetime risk of cognitive decline but does not b...
Short cognitive screens such as the are well‑validated, rapid tools that are sensitive to early, mild and widely used as first‑line screens . However, they are not diagnostic instruments and—when used...
There is no publicly verifiable medical diagnosis establishing that has dementia; mainstream medical experts and organizations note that formal diagnosis requires comprehensive, in-person evaluation a...
Clinicians diagnose dementia through a structured, multi-step clinical process that emphasizes cognitive and functional decline, exclusion of reversible causes, and—when needed—neuropsychological test...