Accurate assessment of cognitive performance is paramount in determining cognitive decline and dementia.
Until now, traditional pencil-and-paper cognitive tests administered by trained clinicians have been considered the ‘gold standard’ for diagnosing dementia, but researchers from UNSW Sydney’s Centre for Healthy Brain Aging (CHeBA) propose that computerized neuropsychological assessments hold promise as culturally appropriate tools for assessing cognition and cognitive decline in older culturally and linguistically diverse Australians.
The findings, published in the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society,…
