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Dementia diagnosis: There's an app for that

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    iPad-based memory test helps spot early signs of condition

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-- -- -- -- -- Kath -- memory is failing so fast she fears she may have to mention it.

It's a disease that's pretty tricky to diagnose and -- city stages until now.

This new medical app is so accurate that -- sports problems when symptoms are still mild.

Treatment at that stage allows patients to keep working and living independently for longer.

This -- -- -- memory is normal for her rage.

Black -- collecting.

Because she -- Harold these horrible story is still living cat now science.

-- -- not when she turned to -- To patients that can tap Mobo -- is just a computer game.

To doctors -- software that say sophisticated.

That they can distinguish normal forgetfulness for more serious memory problems in just ten minutes.

Doctors currently screened for dementia using a pen and paper test that's nearly forty years old it -- patients whether they know today's date.

And if they know how to spell world backwards.

This new app uses -- technology and is much more accurate and distinguishing dementia from the many other causes of memory problems.

In wolf -- NHS hopes to roll out the software to all GP surgeries.

What we want to use find that we get peoples through a system more quickly and more effectively and that these screening -- we use solo home more accurate -- have been traditionally.

And it's gonna be better for key piece of -- hospital staff what a state that people receiving.

The test.

By the time Jennifer -- was diagnosed she was unable to speak properly now -- treatment she's living independently.

She hopes the new software that -- allow other patients to be diagnosed -- It makes such a difference -- can plan ahead -- -- -- and then prepare and educate one's family and friends.

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People in Britain -- believed to have dementia and the Hoffa being formally diagnosed the new screening test could at last put that right.

Thomas More sky news.

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