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TYM TESTING

Please sit the patient down somewhere quiet and comfortable with a good

pen. Please help them

if necessary

with everything but the answers! There is

no time limit but encourage them to keep going and not become stuck on

one question. They should not go back to questions twice or turn back the

TYM test once they have turned it over. Please make sure that they cannot

check the date or time eg with a watch.

Please give them test and the introduction.

Please do not allow relatives to sit too close and help.

If the patient is unable to do the Tym test because of physical problems eg

unable to write due to a stroke, then please write the answers for them.

Please tick the box at the bottom of page 2

If the person has memory or other similar problems and it is clearly a

struggle then please write the answers for them.

Please watch the person and check the answers and if they have

misunderstood a question or omitted a section then please point this out to

them. So missing out box 2 remind them or filling in box 5 with 4 non

animal words such as star, sugar then gently correct them. You will need to

deduct a point at the end for such reminders.

At the end please record how much help the person needed:

No help: the person completed the test in the right order with no help

Trivial help: the person needed a single reminder

Minor help: the person needed two or more reminders

Moderate help: the person could only do the test if you led them though the

Tym test

Major help: you need to do nearly everything for the person to attempt the

Tym test