KICA

The Kimberley Indigenous Cognitive Assessment (KICA) was developed and validated in response to the need for a validated cognitive (memory and thinking) screening tool for older Aboriginal Australians living in rural and remote areas. It has been further adapted for use with Torres Strait Islander people, and for Aboriginal people living in urban and regional areas.

The resource package includes

instruction booklet
images that have been culturally adapted for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in urban, regional or remote areas
dementia checklist
tools for screening for depression
tools for care planning
educational videos for both urban and remote contexts.

Tools required to perform the KICA-cog
• Comb
• Pannikin / cup
• Box of matches
• Plastic bottle with top
• Watch/ timer for verbal fluency question and pictures

The pictures are for the visual naming and free recall questions and should be presented in that order.

Urban KICA-cog images

Remote KICA-cog images

Additional KICA-cog images

Remote KICA-cog Torres Strait Islander images

Urban tools

KICA Instruction booklet

KICA-cog Urban and Regional clients

Images for Urban KICA-cog

Remote tools

KICA-cog for Remote clients

Images for Remote KICA-cog

Images for Torres Strait Islander Remote KICA-cog

Extended KICA for Remote clients

KICA- Carer - Remote

Results interpretation

KICA results and dementia checklist

Quick screens

KICA-Screen (sKICA) 10 questions - Remote

KICA-Screen (sKICA) 10 questions - Urban and regional

The KICA-Screen is a short screen containing 10 questions with a total score of 25.

It is recommended that the full KICA-cog is used for the most valid results.

Additional tools

These tools provide additional information to inform possible diagnosis, rule out other possible causes of cognitive decline, and care planning.

KICA- depression screen

KICA- Behaviour

KICA- ADL

KICA URBAN educational videos

This 5-part video explains how to conduct the KICA memory screen.

KICA-Urban video was developed by LetsCHAT Dementia project collaboration led by the University of Melbourne.

Part 1 Memory and thinking

Part 2 Thing to look out for

Part 3 Having a yarn with your patient about their memory and thinking

Part 4 The KICA-Cog Urban Assessment

Part 5 Where to from here?

KICA REMOTE Educational video

This instructional video covers the KICA remote assessment.

KICA-Remote video was developed by a KICA project collaboration led by The University of Western Australia.