Abstract

Summary The correlation between the mini-mental state examination (MMSE) and the logical memory (LM) subtest of the Wechsler memory scale (WMS) was evaluated in a group of healthy Italians, aged seventy and over, with no significant cognitive impairment. A horizontal study was carried out using 146 subjects (126 women and 20 men; mean age 72.7 ±3.7 years) who enrolled consecutively in the exercise courses for the elderly organized by the Municipality of Torino. A statistically significant correlation was found between the average total MMSE score and the LM score (r = 0.4315, p

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