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Table 4.3

Abbreviated Mental Test Score

  • Age
  • Time (to nearest hour)
  • Address for recall at end of test – this should be repeated by the patient to ensure it has been heard correctly: 42 West Street
  • Year
  • Name of hospital
  • Recognition of two people (e.g. doctor, nurse)
  • Date of birth (day and month sufficient)
  • Year of 2nd World War
  • Name of present monarch
  • Count backwards 20–1

Each correct answer scores one mark. The healthy elderly score 8–10.

Source: Qureshi KN, Hodkinson HM (1974) Evaluation of a ten-question mental test in the institutionalized elderly. Age and Ageing 3, 152–157. Reproduced with permission of Oxford University Press.