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Dr Emma Law -The Cognitive Dementia Rating (CDR) Scale: The future is coming!
Dr Emma Law, narrating her blog written for the Dementia Researcher website.
Emma reflects on a presentation at the European Alzheimer Disease Consortium that described a fully automated conversational agent to deliver the Cognitive Dementia Rating Scale in clinical trials. She explains how the CDR works, the domains it assesses, and the way scores are used to stage dementia. Emma then weighs the potential benefits of an automated AI version, such as standardisation and reduced subjectivity, against serious concerns about the loss of clinical skill, empathy, and responsiveness to emotion…
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