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Feb 14, 2024 · Developed by Dr. Barry Reisberg in 1982, the FAST scale provides a comprehensive evaluation of functional abilities in patients with all forms of dementia, aiding in the planning of appropriate care.
As in many diseases, Alzheimer’s is progressive. This means that symptoms start out mild before progressing to become more and more disruptive to daily life. The progression of Alzheimer’s disease is defined by 7 clinical stages. These stages are also called “Reisberg stages” after the doctor who created them, Barry Reisberg, MD. 1,2
The authors describe a Global Deterioration Scale for the assessment of primary degenerative dementia and delineation of its stages and have used it successfully for more than 5 years and validated it against behavioral, neuroanatomic, and neurophysiologic measures in patients with primary degeneratives dementia.
The Functional Assessment Staging of Dementia (FAST; Reisberg, 1988) is a diagnostic measure designed to identify excessive disability in dementia of the Alzheimer's type. Specifically, it assists in the functional staging of adults with cognitive disturbances.
In 1982 Dr. Barry Reisberg published what was to become the best and most widely accepted description of the stages of Alzheimer's disease. Even today, nine years later, when experts refer to a person being in stage 5 or stage 6, they are referring to Dr. Reisberg's scale of seven stages. Stage 1. No cognitive decline.
Evaluation of changes in functional performance and activities of daily living skills is an essential aspect of the assessment of elderly individuals with chronic illness. Although functional decrement is a central aspect of Alzheimer's disease (AD), many measures currently utilized to assess these ….
The clinical characteristics of Alzheimer’s disease have only begun to be described in detail over the course of the past few years. In our laboratory, we initially described three broad clinical phases of the progression of the disease (Reisberg, 1981; Schneck...
