Mini-Mental State Exam Domains Predict Falls in an Elderly Population: Follow-up from the Hispanic Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studiesof the Elderly (H-EPESE) Study

摘要

ObjectivesAssessment of the predictive ability of the Mini-Mental Status Exam (MMSE) domains (orientation to time, orientation to place, registration, attention& calculation, recall, language, and visual construction) for falls in Mexican-American elders tested the hypothesis that low MMSE domain scores are related to an increased number of falls.