Administration of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment

This video describes how to administer the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.

[ammu]

This video provided a great breakdown of the MOCA. I wished I watched this video before we administered it in class to gain a deeper comprehension of the instrument.  Great video!

[jacklinskibicki]

This appears to be a fairly straight forward cognitive assessment and the video clearly demonstrated how to administer it. Dr. Grande did a great job explaining the instructions, which made it much easier to understand.

[scottmartin]

Very good video and real easy to follow, this was very helpful to see how the test is administered

[niktucker]

This video was very informational and answered all of the questions that came to mind as I continued to watch it.

[ON-CAN]

@ 7:06 I appreciate your great observation and advice on important element of the concept of MOCA..about taking care of scoring system

[brittanyvodzak]

I think the instructions are easy to understand compared to other assessments. I liked how the video went through the assessment; it allows me to become more familiar with it before administering the assessment.

[kimberlykelly]

I really like the MoCA.  This video was helpful in understanding each of the sections.  I thought the optional recall section was interesting and wondered its purpose.  Dr. Grande then explained it can help the clinician gather more info. that can assist in determining which type of memory disorder the client may have (i.e. retrieval failures or encoding failures).

[brittanyrio]

This video was very detailed and I liked that because I felt it was explained well.  I can see the differences between this and the MOCA that we did in class, and I think it is very important to be absolutely positive on how and when to administer. At first I thought this would be easy to administer, but watching this video and administering the other MOCA that we did in class, I can see how important it is to pay attention to detail and provide exact directions to the client.  

[rosasutton]

I can see how this instrument would be useful. The video was thorough, straightforward, and easy to understand.

[danielamoore]

I agree with Robert, this video was easy to follow. It was also good to see Dr. Grande  administer it in class and do role-play with us. It seems like an easy assessment, but the instructions are very detailed and the clinician must be consistent in the way he/she gives them. I like the MoCA: it is simple, clear and straight forward. Once the clinician is familiar with the instrument (any one of them) I think the assessment session flows more naturally. In class, there were long pauses because we are not familiar with them yet. It will come with practice.

[aliciazahn]

Knowing this was designed for mild cognitive dysfunction is helpful in understanding the different sections of the instrument and the function of this instrument.This was so unbelievably helpful because the instructions were rather difficult but seeing this explained out is different. The caveat about subtracting that Dr. Grande explained was not something I would not have thought about.

[katherinebeck]

This video helped me to better understand the MCA. Im glad this video is up here for review.

[jazzynovy]

This video was very helpful to review the instructions and how to properly administer the test.

[Mjthfdj]

Helpful video on how to administer a test. I enjoyed it.

[juliecampana]

I like that this video was extremely detailed and went through the instructions for the assessor with a fine tooth comb. I like this assessment tool because it seems as though it would be a quick tool to help determine if a client may have a cognitive disability. I know it is important to separate a cognitive disability from a mental disorder so that we can make accurate diagnoses and I think this tool would be very useful when trying to do this.

[kendallwilson]

I really appreciated the detailed explanation of the scoring of this instrument in the video.  We did talk about this instrument in class and practiced administering it but I had trouble with scoring on the more detailed exercises.  This video really helped clear that up for me.

[amandayarn]

I like this assessment. It may look easy to administer however, in class I remember having difficulty following the written instructions. I wanted to follow those instructions to a tee and when I went off topic once, it was hard to get back on track. I also had trouble scoring the instrument in class and I think this video helped.

[kathyolney]

Our Doctor gives this Assessment every year for my Husband and my Medicare screening.

[jpincinjr]

Great layout for the video showing the actual assessment instead of just talking about it. This was very useful because the directions weren't totally clear.

[Pixieburglar]

When I first observed this instrument, I was somewhat surprised because it seemed so basic. Then through observing it being administered I noticed that it was more complex than I originally had thought. I like that there are so many versions of this assessment in almost any language that you can think of. I like this assessment, I think that it could be very useful in many different settings with clients or even just to find more out about yourself.