Stoelting Fuld Object Memory Evaluation Kit

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