MEMORY

MEMORY: Memory includes skills related to recognizing and remembering while performing daily activities in an institutional or community setting. Memory in this context includes the ability to store and retrieve information, particularly verbal and visual. The functional evidence of memory includes recognizing people frequently encountered, remembering daily routines, and executing requests without being reminded. A deficit in memory impairs learning as well as performance of tasks.

NO HELPER

7 Complete Independence—The patient recognizes people frequently encountered, remembers daily routines, and executes requests of others without need for repetition.

6 Modified Independence—The patient appears to have only mild difficulty recognizing people frequently encountered, remembering daily routines, and responding to requests of others. The patient may use self-initiated or environmental cues, prompts, or aids.

HELPER

5 Supervision—The patient requires prompting (e.g., cueing, repetition, reminders) only under stressful or unfamiliar conditions, but no more than 10% of the time.

4 Minimal Prompting—The patient recognizes and remembers 75 to 90% of the time.

3 Moderate Prompting—The patient recognizes and remembers 50 to 74% of the time.

2 Maximal Prompting—The patient recognizes and remembers 25 to 49% of the time, and needs prompting more than half the time.

1 Total Assistance—The patient recognizes and remembers less than 25% of the time, or does not effectively recognize and remember.

                             Do not use code “0” for Memory.