Loddon Mallee Regional Dementia Management Strategy

 
  • Background
  • Carer resources
    • Advanced planning
      • Financial planning
      • Medical planning
      • Driving with dementia
      • Employment
      • Other contact with the Legal System
    • Dementia risk management
    • Dental health
    • Pain management
    • Palliative Care
  • Decision Pathways
    • Ambulance checklist
    • APMHS protocol
    • Day centre check list
    • Delirium guidelines
    • ED pathway
    • HACC check list
    • Police check list
    • Primary care assessment
    • Useful education tools
  • ABC of behaviour management
    • Activating event
    • Behaviour
    • Consequence
    • Management strategies
      • Aggression
      • Alternatives to restraint
      • Catastrophic reactions
      • Hallucinations, delusions and paranoia
      • Resistance to activities of daily living (ADLs)
      • Sexual disinhibition
      • Sleep disturbance
      • Sundowner syndrome
      • Vocally disruptive behaviour
      • Wandering behaviour
    • Ten top tips
    • Communication tips
  • Screening tools
  • Library
  • Contact
  • Home
  • Screening tools

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Screening tools

The following tools may be used for screening people with cognitive impairment:

CAM (Confusion Assessment Method)

GPCOG (General Practitioners Assessment of Cognition)

GDS-8 (8-item Geriatric Depression Scale)

OHAT (Oral Health Assessment Test)


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