Update: Preventive Medicine and Screening Est Older Adults

A Pilot Program of Community‐based Screening for Memory Impairment

“…To the Editor : Screening for cognitive impairment can identify two major groups of individuals: those with potentially reversible dementia and those who may benefit from services such as disability limitation and prevention of complications. As memory‐enhancing treatments and therapies to slow progression of dementia become more widely available, a third purpose‐identifying candidates for such treatment‐will be relevant and may supervene as the most important objective of screening, as suggested by Goldberg 1 . Voluntary screening has been used effectively in community‐based screening for various medical disorders/illnesses and other mental health problems, 2 but there are no comparable experiences with voluntary screening programs for memory disorders.…”