Features
- Stoelting Fuld Object Memory Evaluation Kit Contains:
– Manual
– Set of items for the test forms in a black cloth bag
– Package of record forms for the selected test form - Provides a chance to observe word finding ability, left right orientation, stereognosis and verbal fluency
- Measures memory and learning in older adults
- Age Range: Adults, 70 to 90 years
- Time required: Approximately 15 minutes, individual administration
- Test was developed with hundreds of aged adults, nursing home residents and community active people, for whom norms are provided
- Proved easy to give and effective with school age children
- Blind or deaf are not at a disadvantage on this test
- Appears to be relatively culture fair as well
- Provides separate scores for long term storage, retrieval, consistency of retrieval and failure to recall items even after reminding
- Author: Paula Altman Fuld, Ph.D.
More Information
- 10 Common objects in a bag are presented to determine whether the patient can identify objects by touch stereognosis
- Patient is not told that memory of this event will be tested
- Left and right hands are alternated systematically, providing information about the patients left right orientation
- Patient names or describes, each object and then pulls it out of the bag to see if it was right
- After distracting the patient, by asking the patient to say words rapidly from a single category (rapid verbal retrieval), the patient is asked to recall the things from the bag
- Patient is then offered 4 more chances to learn and recall them (store and retrieve) by reminding the patient of omitted items after each recall, with rapid verbal retrieval preventing rehearsal before each recall opportunity
