Being given the Montreal Cognitive Assessment once every couple of years is normal to determine if someone may be suffering from early onset dementia, but if it's given over and over again, it's being used to determine the progress of dementia which has already been diagnosed.
Now there are other times when the Montreal Cognitive Assessment is given and I've been in that situation.
Nine years ago I had to have my Aortic Heart Valve replaced. A week prior to the procedure, which was going to be done using the TAVR method...
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...they gave me the cognitive assessment to establish a baseline to make sure that the procedure didn't damage my brain since they had to virtually stop the flow of blood for a short peroid of time while they installed the new valve. They also gave me a physiological test to measure my motor skills.
Now at least the cognitive assessment was given to me again the day after the procedure and then again the day I was discharged from the hospital (the procedure was on Monday morning and I was discharged Friday afternoon).
When I returned for my 30-day and 90-day follow-up, they repeated both the cognitive assessment and the physiological test, but that was it.
But just giving it over and over again, just to watch for problems, that's only done when there is already evidence of dementia and they're trying to measure the progress of the disease. As for Trump 'acing it', no one actually aces it, but then he may have reached the point where that's how we remembers it and who's going to tell him otherwise.
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