Copying Overlapping Pentagons Predicts the Ability to Acquire Competence with a Turbohaler in Elderly Hospital In-Patients

Journal: Age and Ageing

Volume: 35

ISSN: 0002-0729

Abstract:

Previous studies have shown that cognitive, praxis and executive tests can predict the ability to acquire inhaler technique in old age. The pentagon copying test from the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) is a test of those functions, so could be superior to other tests for predicting successful inhaler technique acquisition

http://ageing.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/35/suppl_1/i71

Source: Manual

Preferred by: Stephen Allen and Michele Board