We examined 416 persons, living at home, participating in elderly the longitudinal study «Aging in Leganes», aged 71 to 99 years old (mean age: 79 ± 9.2 years 51.7 % women 10.6 illiterate, 25 % without formal education). To standardize the Spanish version of the 7 Minute screening neurocognitive battery (7MS) in a population sample of elderly over 70 years. Spanish: U-no-cua-tro-cin-co-o-cho-nue-ve = 10 syllablesĪ question to ponder: as a hypothetical, is this single item equivalent in both languages as a measure of working memory?Ĭulturally competent assessment requires paying close attention to culture, language, normative data, and how the norms were obtained. Existing tools, therefore, may not be valid for the intended target populations.Introduction. Now, repeat: 1-4-5-8-9 in English and Spanish:Įnglish: One-four-five-eight-nine = 5 syllables Look at the number of vowels in the numbers 0 to 9 in English, and their counterparts in Spanish:Īs can be seen, 5 of 10 numbers have more syllables in Spanish. This would raise the word average per sentence to 14.5 words.Īnother example is a popular test known as Digit Span, in which the examinee repeats progressively longer series of numbers forwards and backwards. If you add the word “siempre” (always) to the Spanish sentence, and correct the tense, you’d have 15 words: El gato siempre se escondia bajo el sofa cuando los perros entraban en la sala. The word “always” disappeared, and “entran en la sala” means “enter the room”, not “were in the room.” And the tense is different: past tense in English present tense in Spanish. Moreover, the second sentence is not translated accurately. And in Spanish, “Espero que él le entregue el mensaje una vez que ella se lo pida”, does not exist in the English MoCA. Total # of words: 28 words average length per sentence: 14 wordsĪside from sentence length, note that the first English sentence, “I only know that John is the one to help today”, was not translated into Spanish. Espero que él le entregue el mensaje una vez que ella se lo pida. (14 words).
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