At-Home Tests to Evaluate Cognitive Abilities

As you move forward helping your loved ones as they age, we found some helpful at-home tests that may help you determine if your loved one may need further assessment from a medical professional with respect to their cognitive abilities.

Many of these assessments are available through the Alzheimer’s Association and can be found online.

Here are some that we found that you may do in the privacy of your own home:

Memory Impairment Screen: Test your loved one’s ability to read words and categorize them by category.

The General Practitioner Assessment of Cognition (CPCOG): A quick online assessment to evaluate memory and common knowledge.

AD8 Dementia Screening Interview: This checklist provides you with an opportunity to review some basic day-to-day activities related to thinking and memory and how they may have changed over the course of the past few years.

Short Form of the Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly (Short IQCODE): Another checklist for you to review based on your loved one’s cognitive abilities from ten years ago compared to today.

NOTE & DISCLAIMER: The above resources are being shared as a guide only and should not be used to self-diagnose a cognitive impairment. Please use these tests as a benchmark to have a conversation with your loved one and with a health care professional, including your family doctor.

Should you require additional resources, contact your local Alzheimer’s Association or family physician.