Along with clock-drawing test, the words are apple, penny and table.
Patients were instructed to “draw a clock and set the time to ten minutes after eleven,” on a paper with a pre-drawn circle.
They were also asked to recall the three words later in the visit. This so-called Mini-Cog test classified patients as cognitively normal, demented, or mildly cognitively impaired with 83 percent accuracy.
A useful, yet somewhat blunt, tool that primary care doctors can use in a standard 15-minute office visit.
topics: dementia, alzheimer’s
