Montreal Cognitive Assessment: Seeking a Single Cutoff Score May Not Be Optimal

Table 1

Standardized factor loadings of three scales.

Activities of daily living		Montreal cognitive assessment		Clinical dementia rating
Item content	Factor loading	Item content	Factor loading	Item content	Factor loading
Taking transportation	0.75	Linking numbers and letters	0.89	Memory	0.55
Walking	0.62	Copy cubes	0.74	Orientation	0.94
Preparing meals	0.89	Drawing clock	0.66	Judgment and problem solving	0.52
Doing housework	0.90	Naming	0.54	Community affairs	0.64
Taking own medications	0.83	Repeat list of digits	0.47	Home and hobbies	0.48
Eating	1.09	Repeat digits and knocking	0.55	Personal care	0.75
Dressing and undressing	0.88	Subtraction of 7	0.65
Taking care of appearance	0.98	Repeat sentence	0.48
Doing laundry	0.77	Fluency (words)	0.64
Bathing/showering	1.10	Abstraction	0.65
Shopping for groceries	0.80	Delayed recall	0.53
Getting to bathroom on time	0.82	Orientation	0.85
Using telephone	0.94
Handling finances	0.78