ALZHEIMER SCREEN:   The A-Screen is a test that is recommended for primary care practitioners to screen patients over the age of 60 years for possible cognitive impairment.  The MMSEs, as a group of items to be arithmetically summed, is no longer recommended by this site.  One alternative is to complete the form provided here and allow this form to calculate an estimate of the relative number of years into Alzheimer's disease suggested by the performance on the individual items.  The extended version, MMSEx, which provides a broader picture, is recommended for assessment of patients that do not pass the A-Screen.

• A-SCREEN - a test for Alzheimer's disease (2/18/2002) 
•    -  Palm pilot version (in memo format)
•    -  American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry poster  (2/26/2002)
•                  - figures (power-point slides, about 1 meg)
•                 -  see report on poster in CNS News,  May, 2002
   

• Computerized Memory Tester (Bowles-Langley Technology)
• Check out the BLT/Ashford Memory Test

• AlzheimersScreen
• Mental Status Screening

Accepted guidelines do not yet recommend screening????????
There are good screening tests available and good reasons to use them!!