Rowland Universal Dementia Assessment Scale.

RUDAS

What it measures

Multicultural cognitive screening - body orientation, praxis, visuoconstruction, judgement, memory (recall), language (fluency)

Length and format

6 items, total 0-30. performance - examiner-administered, ~10 minutes (performance/ability test)

Language versions

Designed to be translation-robust; validated in many languages incl. Spanish, Greek, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, several Western European (approx 30+ langs)

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

open with attribution

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Reference

Storey JE, Rowland JTJ, Basic D, Conforti DA, Dickson HG. The Rowland Universal Dementia Assessment Scale (RUDAS): a multicultural cognitive assessment scale. Int Psychogeriatr. 2004;16(1):13-31.