The Reisberg Functional Assessment Screening Tool (FAST) is a scale that doctors use to diagnose and evaluate aspects of Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive form of dementia ...

Delirium — an acute but treatable syndrome — must be differentiated from dementia, which has a slow and chronic progression. A history of rapid functional change or change in patient behavior (e.g., ...

A Call for Improving the Quality of Cancer Care in Geriatric Patients A review of geriatric assessment tools and their role in assessing older patients with cancer before and after treatment. For many ...

The issue of cognitive testing of older adults has received considerable attention since President Trump disclosed his own results ("Person, man, woman, camera, TV"). The test he was given, the ...

The U.S. Social Security Administration has requested that the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conduct a study to (1) provide an overview of ways to collect information about ...