Cognitive impairment including dementia is really severely under-diagnosed in the United States.We want to try to achieve this goal of detecting dementia in primary care by focusing on the simplicity of the problem.There is going to be multi-site development and consortium-based validation of paradigms for detecting cognitive impairment in primary care. DetectCID is not so much about the science of developing new tools to detect dementia. It’s about the science of transferring that ability in a practical way so that primary care has what it needs in order to diagnose dementia in ordinary real-world clinical settings.
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