Mmse Essay
Task one:
Folsteins Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) was first described by Marshall F. Folstein, Suzan Folstein, & Paul R. McHugh (as cited in International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2009). Marshall Folstein, a neuropsychiatrist, created the MMSE overnight because he was not happy with a patients’ cognitive report written by wife Suzan Folstein, a psychiatrist. He presented the MMSE to the clinical director Paul R. McHugh who acknowledged the significance of MMSE to clinicians and epidemiologists in many countries (Folstein, 1990). MMSE was originally designed to provide a brief, standardized assessment of mental status in psychiatric patients, and now detects and tracks the development of cognitive impairment in conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease (Bowden & Meade, 2005).
The aim of MMSE is to screen for cognitive impairment, assess the severity of any impairment, and monitor change by serial testing (Ridha & Rossor, 2010). It does not focus on a client’s mood, thought content, judgment and insight like the mental status examination does, but focuses on the cognitive aspects of a client’s mental purposes (Towsend, 2008). That is why it is called “mini” because it refers to the fact that this tool only concentrates on cognitive features of mental functioning of the client (Jensen & Hansen, 2008).
According to Caritas Health Group (n.d.), MMSE is a well validated screening tool for cognitive impairment by briefly measuring orientation, short term verbal memory, immediate recall, calculation, language, and constructs ability. The clients will be asked the year, season, date, month and day of the week, name three objects, use their calculation ability by subtracting seven at least five times from 100 or spell the word world backward, test their recall ability by repeating the three objects mentioned and also test their language and constructing ability. They receive one point for each correct answer (Hickey, 2003).
The test consists of
Folsteins Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) was first described by Marshall F. Folstein, Suzan Folstein, & Paul R. McHugh (as cited in International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2009). Marshall Folstein, a neuropsychiatrist, created the MMSE overnight because he was not happy with a patients’ cognitive report written by wife Suzan Folstein, a psychiatrist. He presented the MMSE to the clinical director Paul R. McHugh who acknowledged the significance of MMSE to clinicians and epidemiologists in many countries (Folstein, 1990). MMSE was originally designed to provide a brief, standardized assessment of mental status in psychiatric patients, and now detects and tracks the development of cognitive impairment in conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease (Bowden & Meade, 2005).
The aim of MMSE is to screen for cognitive impairment, assess the severity of any impairment, and monitor change by serial testing (Ridha & Rossor, 2010). It does not focus on a client’s mood, thought content, judgment and insight like the mental status examination does, but focuses on the cognitive aspects of a client’s mental purposes (Towsend, 2008). That is why it is called “mini” because it refers to the fact that this tool only concentrates on cognitive features of mental functioning of the client (Jensen & Hansen, 2008).
According to Caritas Health Group (n.d.), MMSE is a well validated screening tool for cognitive impairment by briefly measuring orientation, short term verbal memory, immediate recall, calculation, language, and constructs ability. The clients will be asked the year, season, date, month and day of the week, name three objects, use their calculation ability by subtracting seven at least five times from 100 or spell the word world backward, test their recall ability by repeating the three objects mentioned and also test their language and constructing ability. They receive one point for each correct answer (Hickey, 2003).
The test consists of
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