Question

Alzheimer's patient mini mental exam

Answer 1

The mini mental status examination is a 30 point questionnaire is used extensively in a clical and research setting measure cognitive impairment

Mini mental stayus examination maximun score patients score questions 5 What is the year? season?date? day of week? month? 5 Where are we now? state?country? hospital?floor? town/city? 3 RExaminer names three unrelated objects clearly and slowly then ask the patient to response is used for scoring .The examiner repeat them untill the patient's learns all of them,if possible,number of the trials 5 I would like to count backwards from100 by sevens'(93,86 ,79,72,65,..) Stop after 5 answers Alternative;"SpellWORLD backwards."(D-L--R-O-W) 3 "Earlier I told you the names of three things.Can you tell me what those were?" 2 Show the patient two simpleobjects,such as a wristwatch and a pencil,and ask the patient to name them. 1 Repeat the phrase-no,ifs,and buts 3 " take the paper in your right handfol it in half, and put it on the floor" (the examiner gives the patient a piece of blank paper) 1 "Make up and write a sentence about anything" (this sentence must contain noun and a verb) 1 "Please read this and do what it says,"(written instruction is "close your eyes" 1 "Please copy this picture " (The examiner gives a patient a blankpiece of paper and ask him/her to draw the sympol below.All 10 angle must be present and 2 must intersect) 30 TOTAL scores of MMSE ranges from to 30 with scores 26 or higher being considered as normal less than 9 indicate severe impairment 10-20 indicate moderate dementia people with early stage of alzhemer's diseases score19-24 range There are 2 primary uses of MMSE.First , it is widely used validated, and reliable method of screening for Alzheimer's disease.As a screening test ,how ever it not meant to substitute fora thorough diagnostic workup.