Motivation, Worries and Digital Affinity in Cognitive Screening - Qualitative Findings From the CogScreen Study

Paulina Tegethoff, Robert Perneczky, Marleen Taute, Amy Deckert, Michael Hornbecker, Sophia Rutt, Anna Hufnagel, Soeren Mattke, Carolin Kurz, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, LMU Hospital, LMU Munich, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases , Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology , Ageing Epidemiology , Research Unit, School of Public Health, Imperial College, Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience , University of Sheffield, Davos Alzheimer, s Collaborative, The USC Brain Health Observatory, University of Southern California Dornsife, Los Angeles

Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology

Published online on February 25, 2026

Abstract

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Background: Subjective cognitive decline is considered one of the earliest signs of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), making early detection crucial for disease-modifying treatments to have the greatest impact. The CogScreen study, supported by the Davos ...