Attention & Concentration |
Drawing exercise |
Drawing of hexagon, pentagon and octagon were observed by the patient and asked to reproduce them exactly. |
Calculation |
Patients were asked to pick any 2-digit number, then asked to add 3 to that number 3 times, then 5 was subtracted from that final number 3 times. |
Non dominant hand activities |
Patients were asked to use non- dominant hand in doing activities like feeding, combing, medication, hand shake. |
Memory skills |
Picture Recall |
Pictures (Lion, Camel and Rhinoceros) illustrated in MoCA were shown to the patients and then questions are asked to confirm some details of the image. |
Naming Therapy |
Patients were ought to read the list of the words given in assessment form of MoCA. After 5 min, patient tries to remember as much words as possible. |
Card Recall |
10 cards were chosen from a deck; placed on the table so as to be observed by the patient. After 2 min, they were turned down. Then patients were ought to recall the cards and arrange them in ascending/descending order. |
Executive functional training includes |
Series of elements |
(a,c,e,g,_); (2,4,6,8,_); (6,5,4,3,_) were provided to the patients and asked to indicate which is the next element, following the logical sequence. |
Series of real-life situations |
Situations were presented to the patients like (when someone surprises you, when someone greets you, when someone orders you to do something, etc.) and were asked to what would be their reactions and why. |
List of words in pair |
(orange-banana; bicycle-car; pen-pencil; camel-cow; tea-water) were presented to patients and were asked to indicate the relationship between the pairs i.e. similarities and dissimilarities. |
MoCA: Montreal cognitive assessment. |