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Saundra's Corner
Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE)
09/29/2016
How to Use
- Widely used tool for detecting cognitive impairment, assessing severity, and monitoring cognitive changes over time
- Takes ~ 5–10 minutes to administer
- Should be administered by trained clinicians
- Assesses 5 areas: Orientation, Short-term memory (retention), Attention, Short-term
memory (recall) and language - Most commonly used tool in screening for Alzheimer’s disease (AD)
- Highly educated people tend to score higher even when they have AD
- Available in many languages
How to Score
Maximum score is 30. In general, scores fall into 4 categories.
- Orientation – 10 points
- Short-term memory (retention) – 3 points
- Attention – 5 points
- Short-term memory (recall) – 3 points
- Language – 9 points
https://www.mocatest.org/normative_data.asp
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