![]() ![]() Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) Cognitive Screening Mild Cognitive Impairment Alzheimer´s Disease. The MoCA is a privileged instrument for early detection of cognitive decline that is properly adapted to the Portuguese population. Studies corroborate MoCA’s good psychometric properties, its validity, clinical utility, and equivalence to the original instrument in various levels considered. The process involved translation, linguistic improvement of the instrument and manual, studies with the experimental version, revision and adjustments required to finalize the Portuguese version, and analysis of equivalence to the original version. The test has 30 questions and takes about 10 minutes to finish. Mini-Mental State Exam (Clinical Version) The Mini-Mental State Exam is the most common tool for assessing the severity of a person’s Alzheimer’s. DISH Network has MoCA products designed specifically for their frequency band too (<800 MHz). The test is meant to be administered and scored only by a doctor, and is harder to find online than the MMSE. This paper describes the stages of cultural adaptation of MoCA to the Portuguese population and analyzes the equivalence between the original and the Portuguese final version. DirecTV’s MoCA bridge is called DECA (DirecTV Ethernet-to-Coax Adapter) and is available from various online retailers. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is a cognitive screening instrument with greater sensitivity than the Mini- Mental State Examination (MMSE) to milder stages of cognitive decline, especially to Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), which often progresses to Dementia. technologies that could assist in testing (e.g., use of online. Adaptation studies of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) to the portuguese population. Memory Impairment Screen MMSE Mini Mental Status Exam MoCA Montreal Cognitive. ![]()
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