Orientation:

• 0-8 points
• Name, address, current location (building), city, state, date (day), month

Attention:

• 0-7 points
• Present 5, then 6, then 7 digits to repeat
  • 2-9-6-8-3
  • 5-7-1-9-4-6
  • 2-1-5-9-3-6-2

Immediate Recall:

• 0-4 points
• Present four(4) unrelated words to repeat (subtract #trials needed to learn)
  • “apple, Mr Smith, charity, tunnel”

Calculation:

• 0-4 points
  • 5×13
  • 65-7
  • 58/2
  • 29+11

Abstraction:

• 0-3 points
• Describe similarity:
  • Orange – banana
  • Dog – horse
  • Table – bookcase

Construction and Copying:

• 0-4 points (2 points each)
• Draw a clock face showing 11:10
• Copy a cube

Information:

• 0-4 points
• President
• 1st president
• Define an island
• Number of weeks in a year

Recall:

• 0-4 points
• “apple, Mr Smith, charity, tunnel”

Scoring:

• 38 possible points
• 34-38 – normal
• 29-33 – cognitive impairment
• 28 or less – dementia