Background: Cognitive impairment may lead to dementia, which can affect the elderly quality of life. Improving awareness and prevention of dementia risk factors become very essential to prevent cognitive impairment, and one of the effort is through.Objective: This study aimed at observing the relationship between elderly characteristics as dementia risk factors with cognitive impairment incidence.Method: Descriptive study with a cross-sectional approach was used. The population was elderly who resided in Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Indonesia. A sample of 341 elderlies, aged 60 years old or above was selected and screened through multistage random sampling. Chi-Square and Fisher's Exact tests used to analyze the data.
Results:The results of dementia screening using CDT found as much as 91.8 %elderly were suffered from cognitive impairments. There was a significant correlation between sex and educational background with cognitive impairment(p=0.003 and p=0.005).
Conclusions:Educational background can affect individual's cognitive level. Elderly is expected to keep stimulating their cognitive, socializing, and maintaining their physical exercise.