Middlesex Elderly Assessment of Mental State (MEAMS) detects gross impairment of cognitive skills in the elderly.
Middlesex Elderly Assessment of Mental State
MEAMS
Middlesex Elderly Assessment of Mental State (MEAMS) detects gross impairment of cognitive skills in the elderly.
Overview
Product Details
- Publication date:
- 1989
- Age range:
- Adult
- Qualification level:
- B
- Administration:
- 10 minutes
- Forms:
- Two Parallel Forms
- Norms:
- 120 U.K. patients
The Middlesex Elderly Assessment of Mental State (MEAMS) is the benchmark screening test used to detect gross impairment of specific cognitive skills in the elderly.
Benefits
- Systematically survey the major areas of cognitive performance.
- Differentiate between functional illnesses and organically-based cognitive impairments.
Features
The MEAMS systematically surveys the major areas of cognitive performance using a comprehensive range of subtests:
- Orientation and memory subtests
- New learning subtests
- Naming subtests
- Comprehension and arithmetic subtests
- Visio spatial skills subtests
- Perception subtests
