133 What's new in CCDS – Working Group Guidelines for Diagnosis and Monitoring

Episode 133 – What's new in CCDS – Working Group Guidelines for Diagnosis and Monitoring

In this episode, I talk through the 2026 Canine Cognitive Dysfunction Working Group Guidelines for Diagnosis and Monitoring of CCDS.

As a caregiver of a senior dog myself, this is a topic very close to my heart, so when these guidelines came out, I had to dig into them to get the very latest information on CCDS.

Written by a group of amazing experts, including Behaviour, Neurology and Medicine Specialists as well as a number of General Practitioners, these guidelines provide a framework for diagnosis and monitoring of CCDS, highlight the challenges associated with this and look towards new developments in the future.

Have a listen as I provide you with my Top 10 Summary points of the guidelines and how they relate to practical clinical cases and what I have experienced with my own patients.

Here is a link to the Paper:

Olby, N.J., Araujo, J.A., Gruen, M.E., Johnson, P., Kubinyi, E., Landsberg, G., Latimer, C.S., McGrath, S., McKenzie, B., Moreno, J.A. and Tarantino, M., 2026. The Canine Cognitive Dysfunction Syndrome Working Group guidelines for diagnosis and monitoring of canine cognitive dysfunction syndrome. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 264(4), pp.498-505.

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