Rowland Universal Dementia Assessment Scale.
RUDAS
Multicultural cognitive screening - body orientation, praxis, visuoconstruction, judgement, memory (recall), language (fluency)
- Provisionally grouped under
- 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)
- 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.
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