A review of the Rowland Universal Dementia Assessment Scale

ObjectivesTo explore the application, diagnostic accuracy and predictors effecting the performance of the Rowland Universal Dementia Assessment Scale (RUDAS) in older populations living outside Australia.DesignA literature review was conducted using a simplified approach of thematic analysis. A comprehensive computerized search of peer reviewed published papers (2004–2017) was conducted in Academic Search Complete (EBSCO), Medline with Full-text, Pubmed and Google Scholar using the following search terms: Rowland Universal Dementia Assessment Scale, sensitivity and specificity. Inclusion criteria were papers in which the RUDAS was used with older populations outside Australia and written in English.ResultsDatabase and manual searching identified a total of 289 papers and after reviewing the abstracts, titles and full-text papers, 12 papers were included in this review. Outside the target populations of culturally and linguistically diverse communities in Australia, the RUDAS is applied internationally in ...