NIH R01 · 2024
Multicultural Community Dementia Screening
ABSTRACT The US Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) concluded that current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits vs harms of screening for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and early Alzheimer's disease and related disorders (ADRD), first published in 2014 and recently updated. Instead, the USPSTF has called for more research, publishing a research plan in 2017 to evaluate the evidence of dementia screening. Community detection of MCI and early ADRD may be limited due to the lack of screening tests characterizing the earliest signs of impairment, monitoring response to interventions, correspondence to biomarkers, and the potential benefits versus harms from…
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