Dementia Assessment and Planning

 History and  AssessmentCurrent  Exam Status and  Staging and Planning
Personal HXNot MR, No Development Delay Estimate level of function for most of adult lifeCognitive MOCA or MMSE plus Clock DrawingFamily Planning  
  Barthel  ADL   indexAdvance directives  
DeclineDescribe any changes or decline in function Refer to ADA 8t/c Simpson Angus or parkinsonism scaleDurable power of attorney
Fam HXFamily History (identify parents, and current sttus or age of death and why) Any dementia in familyAttempt to delineate  type of dementia  Health care surrogate
Medical  Neuro :  Cardiac: Diabetes:  malignancy: Renal:  other major medical Physical TraumaFAST staging Functional Assessment of Stages  DementiaFinancial,  placement plans in future
MedicationsNumber of medications Recent changes anticholinergicsMEDICATION TREATMENT   Anticholinesterase Inhibitors  AlzOnline for caregivers
Substance Use   
Psychiatric HXEsp Depression,  PTSD,  
    
CAMFor Delirium  
 GDS (geriatric depression scale) If score > 6 evaluate role of depression  
  Discuss Anticholinesterase inhibitors 
  BPSF:  CMAI, Pittsburgh Agitation, NPI 
    
    

Dementia RX Plan