More about the GPCOG
Welcome to the official website of the GPCOG (The General Practitioner assessment of Cognition). This website is available in different languages. To select your language please use the drop down menu at the top of the start page.
The GPCOG is a reliable, valid and efficient instrument to screen for dementia specifically in a primary care setting [1, 2]. It takes less than 4 minutes to administer the patient assessment and 2 minutes to interview the caregiver, the GPCOG, performs at least as well as the standard screening tool, the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) [2]. Recent reviews of dementia screening tools for the primary care setting recommend the use of the GPCOG [3-5]. Another study [6] indicates that the GPCOG score is not influenced by the cultural and linguistic background of a person making it an invaluable screening tool especially in multicultural patient settings. Downloads of relevant research papers are available below.
The aim of this website is to support GPs in administering the GPCOG and to facilitate screening for dementia and cognitive impairment. This website provides GP guidelines and other useful information for better management of dementia patients and their families.
The GPCOG has been translated into many languages: English, French, Italian, Greek, German, Spanish, Mandarin and Cantonese [7,8]. If you would like to print out a paper version of the GPCOG in your language please click here and select your language .
Before you administer the GPCOG for the first time, please make sure you have read the instructions (on the first page of the test) and/or watched the training video.
At the end of each assessment you will have the chance to print off a results page for your records.
To start the assessment, please click here.
References:
- Brodaty, H., Kemp, N.M. and Low, L.-F., Characteristics of the GPCOG, a screening tool for cognitive impairment. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2004. 19(9):870-4.
- Brodaty, H., et al., The GPCOG: a new screening test for dementia designed for general practice. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2002. 50(3):530-4.
- Lorentz, W.J., Scanlan, J.M. and Borson, S., Brief screening tests for dementia.. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry - Revue Canadienne de Psychiatrie, 2002. 47(8):723-33.
- Milne, A., et al., Screening for dementia in primary care: a review of the use, efficacy and quality of measures. International Psychogeriatrics, 2008. 20(5):911-26.
- Brodaty, H., et al., What is the best dementia screening instrument for general practitioners to use? American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2006. 14(5):391-400.
- Basic, D., Khoo, A., Conforti, D. et al., Rowland Universal Dementia Assessment Scale, Mini-Mental State Examination and General Practitioner Assessment of Cognition in a multicultural cohort of community-dwelling older persons with early dementia. Australian Psychologist 2009; 44(1):40-53
- Thomas, P., Hazif-Thomas, C., Vieban, F. et al., Interet du GPCOG pour le reperage d’une population agee a risque eleve de demence. Psychol NeuroPsychiatr Vieil, 2006 ; 4(1):1-9
- Pirani, A., et al., The validation of the Italian version of the GPCOG (GPCOG-IT): A contribution to cross-national implementation of a screening test for dementia in general practice. Int Psychogeriatr (in press).
Related Papers
Brodaty et al 2002: The GPCOG; a new screening test for dementia designed for general practiceBrodaty et al 2004: Characteristics of the GPCOG
Brodaty et al: What is the best dementia screening instrument?
Kemp et al 2002: Diagnosing dementia in primary care The accuracy of informant reports
Lorentz et al 2002: Brief screening tests for dementia
Acknowledgements
Project:Developing this website was only possible due to a generous grant provided by the National Initiative for Care of the Elderly, Canada (NICE) and the International Collaboration for the Care of the Elderly (ICCE). NICE and ICCE funded this project for which Henry Brodaty, Dimity Pond and Brian Draper were the project leaders. Translations and validations of GPCOG worldwide:
Philippe Thomas from France, Alessandro Pirani from Italy and Christos Lionis from Greece and their teams translated and validated the GPCOG in their countries. Jo Georgakis, Carine Pose, Fernanda di Natal, Vadim Doubine, Victor Vickland, Razvan Ioan Trascu, Xi Chen, Michael Valenzuela, Wency Ho and Helen Wu helped with translations in Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Romanian, Cantonese and Mandarin. Other support:
The Australian Government funded Primary Dementia Collaborative Research Centre, the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and the NSW Department for Health supported and hosted the project. Development of this website:
The website was developed by Jake Surman and Katrin Seeher.
