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 201
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Each correct answer scores one mark. The healthy elderly score 810.
Source: Qureshi KN, Hodkinson HM (1974) Evaluation of a ten-question mental test in the institutionalized elderly. Age and Ageing 3, 152157. Reproduced with permission of Oxford University Press.