Mini-Mental State Examination norms in a community-dwelling sample of elderly with low schooling in Brazil Normas do Mini-Exame do Estado Mental para uma amostra de idosos com baixa escolaridade residentes na comunidade no Brasil

• Main Authors: Jerson Laks (Author), Elienai Maria Rubim Baptista (Author), Ana Lúcia Barros Contino (Author), Estevão Oliveira de Paula (Author), Eliasz Engelhardt (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The objective of this study was to assess Mini-Mental State Examination norms of a functionally normal sample of community-dwelling elderly. Illiterate and low-educated subjects who scored less than 5 on the Pfeffer Functional Activities Questionnaire (PFAQ) [n = 397; female = 269; mean age = 72.15...