Maybe “significant risk” wasn’t the exactly correct phrase - but you didn’t have those tests because you had no symptoms ( something was bugging you) and presumably the pain in your foot could have been caused by something other than arthritis that nothing could be done about . What I meant about the “significant risk” is that people with no symptoms who are at significant risk of something sometimes have scans or tests done just because of that risk. For example, only people of a certain age with a certain history of smoking are usually recomended to have an annual low dose CT screening for lung cancer. It’s not recommended for everyone.
Sure, his bone spurs might have been acting up - but that would be a medical indication and therefore not done for screening purposes.
(My bolding.) If this happened, and if I could arrange to get 1/100th of a penny each time the resulting video clip was played, I’d very shortly become America’s first trillionaire!
I’m only 43, and I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t do great on the clock part. I’ve always struggled to read a clock face, ever since the concept was introduced in second grade. If I can take a few seconds to look at it I can figure it out, but I completely panic if someone asks for the time.
As part of the Medicare annual health assessment, I’ve had to draw the clock every time. Seems like it’s always for 10:50. Don’t know what they’ll do when today’s kids get old, many just don’t see enough analog clocks to get good at reading them. They also give you three words to recite back later, not too difficult. I’ve never been tempted to boast about beating the test.
That dementia test isn’t asking someone to tell the time shown on an analog clock, but rather draw a clock set to a specific time.
I’m not sure if that’s any easier, but at least you’ll have more time as the test giver isn’t expecting an answer within a second or two.
That first one is hard, the spatial executive function test…drawing a cube with those 1-A-2-B-3-C instructions?..was not going well!!!
(I googled what the heck I was missing…duh, instructions!!)
