Assessing Cognitive Decline in Amazonian Indigenous Elders: A Comparative Study of Mini-Mental State Examination and Rowland Universal Dementia Assessment Scale in Shipibo-Conibo Communities (P9-3.010)

To compare the performance of two cognitive impairment screening tools, the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and the Peruvian version of the Rowland Universal Dementia Assessment Scale (RUDAS-PE), among elderly members of the Shipibo-Conibo, an Amazonian indigenous group living in native communities in the Yarinacocha district, Pucallpa, Peru.