Assessment: History of presenting complaint- Specific questions about cognitive impairment covering all domains:
- Short term memory (eg: conversations, keys, losing items, leaving cooker on) and ways of compensating (lists, calendars etc), current events
- Long term memory
- Orientation, spatial awareness (getting lost, wandering) and temporal orientation (day vs. night)
- Organisation and higher order functions (managing finances, planning)
- Speech and language (word finding, writing)
- Personality change
- Day to day functioning (often need collateral)