← Return to The Burden of Getting Medical Care Can Exhaust Older Patients

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@susanfalcon52

linh,
Asked by whom?
Nothing to fear, I think.
I do know that Medicare asks GPs to do a mental status check annually. I have had it. Usually, the doctor will ask a few simple questions to ascertain if you have depression, anxiety or memory loss.
Then they will give you four words to remember and ask you what they are five minutes later.

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Thank you for the heads up. I will try to get a good nights sleep beforehand and eat an extra good protein like chicken the night before. I will also bring testing showing that when I was young I was far better at remembering long sentences than single words. If the doctor doesn’t have a baseline how can they measure decline? My father was very gifted with math. When he was tested in his 90s he had dropped into the normal range!