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In this video, I share a quick and easy test often used in dementia testing. It’s called the clock draw test. This test alone can’t diagnose dementia, but it’s a good addition to other tests.
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Yes indeed it can…I took these tests for al,zheimers … and I do have a memory illness
what are you going to use with future generations that can't read analog?
Well I wish you luck when thinking that you too will never be subjected to from week to week yourself too some day testing like for that kind of thing only. Like after you had beem forced to remain in bed for over 3 days in a row after say having to undergo emergency surgery for a broken hip.
What about subjective perception of time for one with dementia. Might the key be literally broken internal clock? Bad circadian rhythms? And might that explain the shadowing; the weird shuffling pacing they do while walking?
Make the test for yourself
Interesting! I drew it myself just to be sure I could do so correctly, and I did , I was relieved as one of my relatives has dementia ;(
There is a dusorder ehere people ignore 1/2 of everything, literally. So you would get half a clock.
my 80 yo grandma drew 3 a 2 where the 12 should go and started off good. but didn't qualify into round 30 of the world cup
A friend of mine told me his Mum was asked to draw a clock, she looked at the person asking and said "You want me to draw a COCK?!?!?"
I do the quarters, then the diagonals(2-7, 4-10, 8-3…), it's not perfect, but perfection is not the goal
That one with the string of numbers is sad. Someone was struggling there.
My clock would just have slices of pizza on it , because it is always pizza time.
Let's see Donald Trump's drawing clock..!
They gave my father that test. The woman giving it spoke in a very soft voice and my father was extremely hard of hearing, which I had told her. She wouldn't write it down, wouldn't say it any louder or rephrase it to something easier to hear, such as "draw the face of a clock". She wouldn't let me say it either. He couldn't hear what she wanted, so couldn't draw a clock face and she failed him. When we got home, I asked him to draw the face of a clock and he did. The test should at least be fair and that woman should be in a different career. Maybe IRS auditor or car repossession.
I think the last one they had started drawing a grandfather clock, but forgot/lost concentration and started drawing a person
I failed my clock draw test. Apparently a digital clock isn't allowed.
Some kids nowadays can't read an analog clock. Don't think they can pass the test.
I like how that one lady missed it when she got to six so she was like its on and counted to like 60 lol
dear god i thought his leg was really damn swollen jesus christ
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