Orientation and Attention Flashcards
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What is the maximum number of points available in the attention section of the MoCA?
Answer: 6
Attention is worth up to six points across three tasks.
How many digits are in the forward span sequence and how many in the backward span sequence on the MoCA?
Answer: Five forward, three backward
Forward span uses five digits; backward span uses three.
Which section of the MoCA is administered last?
Answer: Orientation
Orientation is the final section, after delayed recall.
A patient gets the day of the week wrong but correctly answers the date, month, year, place, and city. What is the orientation score?
Answer: 5
Each item is scored independently, so one miss gives 5 out of 6.
Why is the orientation section of the MoCA considered clinically significant even though it is easy?
Answer: Because errors on easy items often indicate more advanced impairment or delirium
Orientation is usually preserved early, so errors suggest more significant impairment.
In the MoCA serial 7 subtraction task, a patient answers 93, 85, 78, 71, 64. How many points are awarded?
Answer: 3
Four of the five subtractions are correct, which earns the full 3 points.