US Preventive Services Task Force

USPSTF: No to Rou­tine Screen­ing for Cog­ni­tive Impair­ment (Med­scape):

“There is insuf­fi­cient evi­dence to rec­om­mend rou­tine screen­ing for cog­ni­tive decline in old­er adults in the pri­ma­ry care set­ting, accord­ing to a new review by the US Pre­ven­tive Ser­vices Task Force (USPSTF)…The USPSTF review­ers looked at drug ther­a­py and non­drug ther­a­py options for cog­ni­tive impair­ment and found more evi­dence on both than at the 2003 review, but not enough evi­dence that they lead to bet­ter health outcomes.

Elab­o­rat­ing on the views of the Alzheimer’s Asso­ci­a­tion, Maria Car­ril­lo, PhD, vice pres­i­dent of med­ical and sci­en­tif­ic rela­tions, explained that “…no one should mis­con­strue this USPSTF guid­ance doc­u­ment to imply that there are no ben­e­fits to reg­u­lar cog­ni­tive eval­u­a­tions, [Read more…] about Brain health par­a­digm shift: from one-time screen­ings to reg­u­lar cog­ni­tive assessments