CDR Sum of Boxes (dementia staging)

Clinical Dementia Rating — Sum of Boxes: six boxes (memory, orientation, judgment, community, home & hobbies 0/0.5/1/2/3; personal care 0/1/2/3) summed 0–18, with O'Bryant global-CDR staging.

Open the calculator → Runs in your browser. Data leaves only if you deliberately send a problem report from the interactive tool.

Example

Memory
1
Orientation
1
Judgment
0.5
Community
1
Home
1
Personal Care
0

Result: CDR-SOB 4.5/18 — mild (CDR 1).

The tool opens with these values already filled in. Replace them with your own.

What the result means

0
No dementia (global CDR 0).
0.5–4.0
Questionable to very mild (CDR 0.5).
4.5–9.0
Mild (CDR 1).
9.5–15.5
Moderate (CDR 2).
16.0–18.0
Severe dementia (CDR 3).

What you enter

  • Memory
  • Orientation
  • Judgment
  • Community
  • Home
  • Personal Care
How this is calculated

Morris JC. The Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR): current version and scoring rules. Neurology. 1993;43(11):2412-2414. Staging ranges: O'Bryant SE, Waring SC, Cullum CM, et al. Arch Neurol. 2008;65(8):1091-1095. Read the source ↗

A reference and educational tool. Not medical, legal, or financial advice, and not a substitute for clinician judgment.

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Built by Clay Good. Source on GitHub.