Has your loved one been given a formal diagnosis? CT Dementia Help can administer the MoCA-Montreal Cognitive Assessment and generate a report which you can bring to your doctor.  

Assessment

The MoCA checks different types of cognitive or thinking abilities. These include:

• Orientation: The test administrator asks you to state the date, month, year, day, place, and city.  
• Short-term memory/delayed recall: Five words are read. The test-taker is asked to repeat them. After completing other tasks, the person is asked to repeat each of the five words again. If they can’t recall them, they’re given a cue of the category that the word belongs to.
• Executive function/visuospatial ability: These two abilities are checked through the Trails B Test. It asks you to draw a line to sequence alternating digits and letters (1-A, 2-B, etc.). The test also asks you to draw a cube shape.  
• Language: This task asks you to repeat two sentences correctly. It then asks you to list all the words in the sentences that start with the letter “F.”
• Abstraction: You are asked to explain how two items are alike, such as a train and a bicycle. This checks your abstract reasoning, which is often impaired in dementia. The proverb interpretation test is another way to measure these skills.
• Animal naming: Three pictures of animals are shown. The person is asked to name each one. This is mainly used to test verbal fluency.
• Attention: The test-taker is asked to repeat a series of numbers forward and then a different series backward. This task tests the ability to pay attention. 
• Clock-drawing test: Unlike the mini-mental state exam (MMSE), the MoCA asks you to draw a clock that reads ten past eleven.

Has your loved one been given a formal diagnosis? CT Dementia Help can administer the MoCA-Montreal Cognitive Assessment and generate a report which you can bring to your doctor.