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Doctors are calling for Biden to take a cognitive test. I think I the Dens are looking for an excuse to dump him from the ticket.t.co/2PBoOSjOrg
— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) June 5, 2024
Doctors have requested that President Joe Biden receives cognitive tests and makes the results public to prove he’s fit to serve after a stunning week of gaffes.
Experts today told DailyMail.com that it was critical the White House was transparent about the President’s mental acuity after the DOJ described Biden, 81, as a ‘elderly man with a poor memory.’
But would you pass the test?
The gold-standard test for dementia is the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), a 10-minute test was created in 1996 for medical professionals to identify mild cognitive dysfunction, a precursory sign of dementia.
It assesses concentration, attention, memory, language, calculations, orientation, executive functions and visual skills.
The test is not a ‘medical capability assessment’ but a medical tool for screening cognition and is intended to be only administered by healthcare professionals that have received the required training and certification.
Trump famously aced the test in 2018 and has bragged about it again this campaign cycle, urging the current president to take it.
The results made public from Biden’s most recent physical gave no indication that he had undergone any kind of medical capability assessment such as the MoCA.