Mini Mental Health Assessment

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Assessment tools are informal symptoms checks which are typically questionnaire which enquire people to reflect their symptoms to point to that “yes”, they are feeling a known symptom, or “no” they do not experience said symptom (Moriarty, 2002).
In this essay mini mental state examination (MMSE) will be used in this essay to focus on the use of exploring mental health assessment tool. It will be used as an assessment on a patient at practice placement and the impact mental ill health has on the person’s family and the wider society. It will also discuss factors which inform the systematic, holistic and collaborative assessment of need with reference to the sociological, biological and psychological and discuss the extent to which the assessment …show more content…

The MMSE was issued in 1975 as a useful means of scoring cognitive impairment (Folstein et al., 1975) Folstein added that the essential general purpose of the MMSE is a brief way to assist in identifying alleged dementia and other psychiatric illness in an inpatient unit. The tool has19 individual tests of which contains 11 domains covering orientation, registration, attention , calculation, spelling, recall, naming, repetition, verbal, written and construction (Folstein et al, 1975 ). Department of Health (2005) highlighted that that 40% of older people who see their GP and 50% of older people seen in general hospitals, and also 60 % of older people living in care and residential homes are diagnosed with …show more content…

Patient AB’s family presence during the assessment was very useful to confirm the good understanding of patient’s memory problem. This was essential because family are able to bring up issues they have noticed about patient memory .The Patient scored 21/30 after the MMSE test and this identified that patient AB has mild cognitive deficits and memory problem due to the evidence her family reported. According to Folstein (1975) the cut off points for MMSE is 24. Patient AB’s family reported that prior to patients admission they realised changes in her memory state. They cited of issues of forgetfulness in taking medication, not being able to remember names of people and places, forgetting date and time, forgets where she put things and sometimes not being able to follow conversation. They mentioned that this turned out to be their main fears when they noticed patient AB got lost after taking the dog out for a walk in the local community and kept knocking on neighbour’s doors for help to locate her

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