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Assessment Tool for Dementia Screening at Home

With baby boomers approaching the age of 65 and new cases of Alzheimer's disease expected to increase by 50 percent by the year 2030, Georgia Tech researchers have created a tool that allows adults to screen themselves for early signs of dementia. The home-based computer software is patterned after the paper-and-pencil Clock Drawing Test - one of health care's most commonly used screening exams for cognitive impairment. The new ClockMe system computerizes the test into two main components: the ClockReader Application and the ClockAnalyzer Application. Because they're saved electronically, the drawings can be used to easily compare a person's cognitive ability progress or regression over time.

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    00:00:04 in this test we usually tell people okay here is the clock draw of the number of the clock and set down the time let's set the time 10 11 once we uh the patient finish that the technician will look at the drawing and then they look at the different criteria so in our system we use a certain points criteria so each one of the certain point indicated whether are there all the

    00:00:30 numbers in the clock are all the number in the right position do you have the long hand and the short hand do you have the center are they point in the right time and minute if we can make this available to people like in the shopping mall or Community Center or even in every Clinic we may be able to screen and detect more people who never get diagnosis until very late in their stage

    00:00:55 and so um we think it will be possible to detect early symptom of alimer disease with this tool and we are excited about that