For Researchers

To learn more about the risk tool and details of its development, please refer to our development and validation papers below, as well as publications that have cited the CogDrisk tool:

Development

Anstey K.J., Kootar S., Huque M.H., Eramudugolla R., & Peters R. (2022). Development of the CogDrisk tool to assess risk factors for dementia. Alzheimer’s & Dementia Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring. https://doi.org/10.1002/dad2.12336

Anstey, K. J., Huque, M. H., Kootar, S., Eramudugolla, R., & Li, M. (2024). Development and Concurrent Validity of the Short-Form CogDrisk Dementia Risk Assessment Tool. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease, 11(6), 1751–1758. https://doi.org/10.14283/jpad.2024.108 

Huque, M. H., Welberry, H. J., Eramudugolla, R., Lautenschlager, N. T., & Anstey, K. J. (2025). Development of a midlife-specific CogDrisk algorithm (CogDrisk-ML) to enable validated implementation of dementia risk assessment from midlife to late life. Age and Ageing54(7), afaf201. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaf201

Validation

Kootar, S., Huque, M. H., Eramdugolla, R., Rizzuto, D., Carlson, M. C., Odden, M. C., Lopez, O. L., Qiu, C., Fratiglioni, L., Han, S. D., Bennett, D. A., Peters, R. & Anstey, K. J. (2023). Validation of the CogDrisk instrument as predictive of dementia in four general community-dwelling populations. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease. https://doi.org/10.14283/jpad.2023.38

Huque, M. H., Kootar, S., Eramudugolla, R., Han, S. D., Carlson, M. C., Lopez, O. L., Bennett, D. A., Peters, R., & Anstey, K. J. (2023). CogDrisk, ANU-ADRI, CAIDE, and LIBRA risk scores for estimating dementia risk. JAMA Network Open. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.31460

Huque, M. H., & Anstey, K. J. (2025). Assessment of dementia risk scores in predicting mild cognitive impairment: A comparison of CogDrisk, CAIDE, LIBRA, and ANU-ADRI. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tjpad.2025.100324

Stubs, J., Melbye Langballe, E., Livingston, G., Anstey, K. J., Deckers, K., Mathews, F. E., Kivimäki, M., Heine Strand, B., Rokstad, A-M., Krokstad, S., & Selbæk, G. (2025). Dementia risk prediction: A comparative analysis of the ANU-ADRI, CAIDE, CogDrisk, LIBRA, and LIBRA2 indices in the HUNT study. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tjpad.2025.100326

Publications using CogDrisk

Treacy, C., Levenstein, J. M., Jefferies, A., Metse, A. P., Schaumberg, M. A., Villani, A., Boucas, A. P., Hermens, D. F., Lagopoulos, J., & Andrews, S. C. (2023). The LEISURE Study: A Longitudinal Randomized Controlled Trial Protocol for a Multi-Modal Lifestyle Intervention Study to Reduce Dementia Risk in Healthy Older Adults. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 94(2), 841–856.
https://doi.org/10.3233/JAD-230193

Pace, T., Levenstein, J. M., Anijärv, T. E., Campbell, A. J., Treacy, C., Hermens, D. F., & Andrews, S. C. (2024). Modifiable dementia risk associated with smaller white matter volume and altered 1/f aperiodic brain activity: cross-sectional insights from the LEISURE study. Age and Ageing, 53(11), Article afae243. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afae243

Yang, S., Ye, Z., He, P., Zhang, Y., Liu, M., Zhou, C., Zhang, Y., Gan, X., Huang, Y., Xiang, H., & Qin, X. (2024). Plasma proteomics for risk prediction of Alzheimer’s disease in the general population. Aging Cell, 23(12), Article e14330. https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.14330 

Levenstein, J. M., Treacy, C., & Andrews, S. C. (2025). Neurophysiological Correlates of Modifiable Dementia Risk Factors in Cognitively Unimpaired Older Adults. Cerebral Cortex, 35(8), Article bhaf170. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.20.639395

Translations of the CogDrisk

The CogDrisk tool is currently being translated into:

  • Arabic
  • Farsi
  • Hindi
  • Spanish
  • Sub-Saharan African and Pasifika languages

If you would like to translate the CogDrisk into another language, please contact Prof. Kaarin Anstey (k.anstey@unsw.edu.au).

The standard CogDrisk tool and the short-form CogDrisk tool are available below:

CogDrisk Tool V1.7

CogDrisk-SF Tool V1.3

The CogDrisk tool is free for use under our academic use licence. To get the scoring protocols for the CogDrisk and CogDrisk-SF, please request the free academic use licence.

Research Licence CogDrisk Online Tool

Research Licence CogDrisk Questionnaire and Rubric

The ANU-ADRI tool is publicly available, with the questionnaire and weights accessible in the electronic supplementary materials:

Anstey, K. J., Cherbuin, N., & Herath, P. M. (2013). Development of a new method for assessing global risk of Alzheimer’s disease for use in population health approaches to prevention. Prevention Science, 14(4), 411-421.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-012-0313-2

If you are interested, please complete the relevant research licence and send the document to Prof. Kaarin Anstey (k.anstey@unsw.edu.au). Researchers interested in collaboration, or in a commercial use CogDrisk licence, please also contact Prof. Kaarin Anstey.

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