This tool is supposed to
1.be sentitive
2.needs little training
3.not culturally biased
The aim is to use such a tool in epidemiological study of the prevalence of dementia in an ethnically diverse population.
Yes this is a good tool but we need to have in mind that there is no really universal tool
There is also the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, or MOCA.
One page. Covers a number of domains memory and other executive functions.
Normative data available and comparisons to other brief assays like the MMSE.
Also available in a number of languages.
See website below.
http://www.mocatest.org/
I was part of a research group that used the Mini-Cog briefly but had to switch to the MoCA, since the Mini-Cog seemed to be only sensitive to frank dementia (and not MCI or early dementia). If you need any kind of variability, use the MoCA or MMSE -- the MoCA is more reliant upon frontal-attentional networks and therefore will be more sensitive for all-cause dementia (especially subcortical/vascular causes). Good luck!
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