Dementia Quiz

People noticing changes in memory, language, orientation, or everyday independence can use the dementia quiz to organize what they are seeing. As a memory change questionnaire, it lets a family member record recurring cognitive and functional patterns and consider how much follow-up may be warranted, rather than reducing the concern to a yes-or-no label. It covers symptom patterns, practical effects, and next-step priority across everyday situations.

What This Assessment Explores

Items cover memory, word-finding, recognition, attention, orientation, multi-step tasks, and reactions to change. They also ask about driving, finances, medications, communication, household responsibilities, and independence. These first-person prompts can function as a cognitive change checklist for someone noticing persistent disruption; a caregiver may organize observations only when that use is intended, while the statements are answered by the person noticing changes. The result presents these dimensions:

• Cognitive Symptoms: 0-30 measures frequency of memory, language, attention, thinking, and disorientation signs; Low 0-10, Moderate 11-20, and High 21-30 are displayed bands.
• Daily Function Impact: 0-20 measures interference with routines, finances, medications, conversations, navigation, hygiene, and household tasks; Low impact 0-6, Moderate impact 7-13, and High impact 14-20 are displayed bands.
• Follow-Up Priority: 0-10 summarizes concern and suggested urgency; Low priority 0-3, Moderate priority 4-6, and High priority 7-10 indicate stronger reasons for evaluation, especially when symptoms worsen or affect safety.

Methodology and Evidence Base

Most items use frequency choices such as Never, Rarely, Sometimes, and Often. Others address severity, persistence, need for help, resolution after rest, and safety situations such as driving or navigation. The result reports three displayed dimensions; higher values indicate more frequent cognitive signs, greater functional interference, or stronger follow-up priority. This questionnaire can turn a family member's vague concern into specific observations about memory, functioning, and safety.

Methodologically, the closest conceptual reference is the Dementia Severity Rating Scale (Clark & Ewbank, 1996), which organizes caregiver observations of cognitive and functional change. The content is consistent with AD8 research by Galvin and colleagues (2005, 2007) and the IQCODE framework from Jorm and Jacomb (1989). This online self-report questionnaire is not a direct administration or validated adaptation of those instruments.

The questionnaire has no standardized administration or published norms. Alongside memory-related items, it examines cognitive-change signs, so an alzheimer's memory test is too narrow a description: its result does not establish a disease diagnosis or an established clinical cutoff, and self-report may be shaped by current stress, expectations, recall, or limited self-awareness.