Practice parameter: early detection of dementia: mild cognitive impairment (an evidence-based review) [RETIRED]. Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology

The goal of this project was to determine whether screening different groups of elderly individuals in a general or specialty practice would be beneficial in detecting dementia.

Epidemiologic studies of aging and dementia have demonstrated that the use of research criteria for the classification of dementia has yielded three groups of subjects: those who are demented, those who are not demented, and a third group of individuals who cannot be classified as normal or demented but who are cognitively (usually memory) impaired.