In order to lead to the early diagnosis of dementia, the Japan Society of Geriatric Psychiatry has developed a new rating scale that allows patients and their families to determine the risk of dementia by answering 13 questions.
The Japan Society of Geriatric Psychiatry has newly developed a rating scale called "J-MCI" to determine the risk of dementia.
Early diagnosis and treatment of dementia is considered important, but the challenge is to connect at-risk people to medical attention at an early stage.
The new rating scale extracts the important characteristics of dementia symptoms as 13 questions and answers "yes" or "no" to the person and their families, and the risk of "MCI = mild cognitive impairment", which is considered to be the precursor to dementia, can also be examined.
Since there is a tendency for the person to lightly evaluate his or her symptoms when answering, it is adjusted so that an accurate judgment can be made, and according to the academic society, when actual patients participated and verified it, it was possible to identify more than 90% of people at risk of dementia.
Since it has been used at some health checkup venues from this month, we are considering making it available on our website in the future.
Takashi Asada, director of the Japan Society of Geriatric Psychiatry, said, "We hope that it will be useful for screening to find at-risk people and encourage them to see a doctor at an early stage."