Quick and Easy Dementia Test
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- Опубліковано 23 бер 2023
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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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I think the last 1 was probably a “grandfather” clock… which is both clever and sad at the same time…
Whats a grandfather clock?
Or just brilliant
Exactly what I thought: grandfather clock
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@@darkforcegaming6683dam you like 7
They told my dad to write something, anything down and he wrote I love you. 💕
When my mother with vascular dementia was asked to draw a clock face, she used up all the numbers and still had space on the clock face, so she added J, Q, and K for Jack, Queen and King for the full run in a deck of playing cards.
I'm 73. My primary care provider has given me this test every year since I was 65.
If I asked my mother to do this, she'd tell me to go to hell, and then throw an actual clock at me.
Yep…I’d do the very same ! HA! My kids would say the same. 😂
Mine, too. She is an exceptionally angry dementia patient. 😢
We may be related....my mom is mean and getting meaner
@@galacruse2318 That’s not always dementia. Lifetime behavior worsens as one ages.
My grandma was like that too
At my physical I was asked to draw 4:10 on a clock & I drew a digital clock just for kicks. The nurse thought it was hilarious but I drew an analog clock to be sure they passed me, which they did.😊
You are officially my spirit animal! 😂
Ive administered this test to someone who had a stroke. He was 100% recovered from the stroke and the only remaining symptom was he couldnt tell the time from a digital or analogue clock. He could read the numbers and explain what they meant and everything but couldnt process what it meant as a whole.
We got him to draw the clock and he put the 12 where the 5 went and stuff like that. His brain had lost the processing part but all the pieces he still had.
Crazy!!!
That is power of recowering and sadnes of past/ present illnes.God is good, !
Some of these just break your heart to look at.
My mom is an accountant so anything with numbers is very easy and routine for her….. but she has completely forgotten things like how to make hot chocolate.
If she can’t find something in the grocery store she’ll just say “oh they don’t make that anymore or it’s not available lately. Forgetting brands we’ve used since she was a child saying we haven’t used that before.
My dad does all the cooking now.
So I ratted her out to our family Doctor to start to get some testing started without us having to force her to do it.
She’s upset about the “stupid tests” especially when I made the doctor follow up the second year and make a reason to redo the testing on a yearly basis…..
She’s still fooling the doctors, but it’s getting really difficult
the one that the numbers just stop following the frame and just go straight up is the creepiest ome by far.
My daughter actually asked me to draw this while playing uno ...then told me why... I passed❤
That's how they diagnosed my mums alzheimer's. She was very good at hiding it in the early stages. She was using stock phrases and just talking about the weather etc. She would ask what we had done that day and when we asked her she would just say ooh nothing much. Bless her heart I miss her so much. She was diagnosed when she was 77 and died aged 85.she didn't really know me for years before she died 💔 😔
GRAMPA was a genius and this one did not stump him! ENGINEERING MARVELS WAS HIS BRAIN. Not too sure about my blocked head. ❤😂
My dad did this test. He draw the numbers and the clock hands outside the circle 😢...
My dad ACED that fuqn clock ⌚..... What they don't know is he's an author an illustrator of his own children's books 😂. They gotta give him a different test. He's definitely hiding it.
My Dad can nolonger draw the numbers on the clock. His Dementia is progressing He is 81.
Mom had that clock draw test, I wasn't allowed to see what she did -on the day she was diagnosed with Alzheimers & Vascular dementia ❤
During official neuropsychological testing, family is typically not allowed in the room.
@@DementiaCareblazers I sat in on 3 separate neuropsychological tests for my father. The first took nearly 2 hours, the last one, the Dr. abandoned the test. All within 5 years.
Can you make a playlist specifically for the different tests, including at home tests?
Yes it’s sad to watch someone who was able to do that and 4 years ago and now can’t remember her son’s name 😊
Thanks so much. What can u tell from how they draw it?
My mom is legally blind with dementia. We (including the various administering professionals) could not tell whether her errors were because of her vision or dementia. She did pretty well on the other sections. The math was the only clear sign we got from these tests. She's progressed since then, so the diagnosis is clear now.
My stepmother did one had the numbers in the right place, but could not get the hands on the right place.
Yup.
We used this method also where I worked
My mother's looked like those.
Very interesting...
My mom has taken it twice….sad…the clock was so distorted. She had no concept! 😢😢
I'm totally sad with these people dementia draws 😢😢
I watched my friend do this test. It’s amazing how revealing it can be.
I took this test.after suffering a stroke
Atv76 ive taken 3 of these kind of like a PSAT ...i cheated on the last one lol ( wrote the 5 named on my hand ) lol
So helpful
Last year mine wrote the number on the middle of the clock when asked to draw the time 12:30. I giggled a little, maybe they were drawing the digital version.
I’m an slp and I have quite the collection of interesting clocks
I have dementia
Last week we saw the neuro for my mom. She was able to draw the numbers on the clock quickly and in place. He asked her to add the hands of the clock for 1040 or 20 minutes to 11. She couldn't. What could this indicate?
ADHD?
Some people have a hard time with analog clocks.
I was taught to tell time by saying like 12:15 or 15 mins before 12. When someone says 12:40 It isn't as easy for me. I can do it but it takes a couple seconds longer. The new generation probably can't tell time the way we learned it. Perhaps she has been using digital clocks for too long. Most older people have some memory problems. Dementia is more than just being forgetful. It wouldn't be as horrible if that was all that it is.
That would mean she's either has dementia or has had a stroke recently.
Hi
Good. It does
What is the time, CV-11?
Give this test to kindergarten students and often you see the same results. Perhaps if retaught some individuals would retain the information. My uncle had a stroke and he relearned speech but not reading.
What is a good or bad result
A good result is putting the clock numbers the right way if you have Alzheimers you will not know how to write the numbers and may bunch them up in one area as opposed to spreading them out like a normal clock.
Im wondering too....my mom was able to draw the clock but wrote the numbers in the reverse order (starting with 12, then 11, then 10, etc.). Along with the other assessments they did that morning, she scored moderate to severe
I never could draw a clock or anything else. I am not an artist.
Test going out of date fast. No one looks at that kind of clock anymore, look at the digital number on phone.
I wonder how many children and young adults would pass this test.
That's a good point. We're probably nearing the last full generation of adults who probably still regularly use analog clocks. I mean I don't have any in my house. I know how to read them and how to draw one but I don't own one. How will they test the next generations when this test is less relevant?
EXPLANATION ? 😮😅😢😮😂
That's really sad and scary
Hannibal!
Whats that..?
@@darkforcegaming6683 In the TV series Hannibal, there was a main character who drew a clock for psychological diagnosis
Bizarre
Make Biden take this test ..😂
Try making Donald Trump take this test oh wait he already said they made him take it twice 😂 but no one is allowed to see his results...hmm wonder why?
Kids nowadays cant read a clock, so wouldnt be able to draw one😢
My daughter's are 13 & 14 years old and they both can tell time on a analog clock because they learned about it in school and their clock at school looks like the one that these people were supposed to draw.
This is a scary..
Let's talk about your clock draw. WTF??????? Why write your numbers like that. I understand doing the directional points on the clock but you didn't go in order. You have to go in order. I'm going to have nightmares about this. Lol
Or rather, let's not talk about it and instead just show a few pictures for content and clicks only .....
I would like to see trump draw one😂