Normative data on neuropsychological tests for very old adults living in retirement villages and hostels

Normative data on neuropsychological tests for very old adults living in re tirement villages and hostels are under-represented in the literature. This study reports normative data on the Mini-Mental State Examination, Digit S pan Forwards, Digit Span Backwards, the Digit Symbol Substitution Test, the Controlled Oral Word Association Test, the Stroop Neuropsychological Scree ning Test and the National Adult Reading Test. Age and education showed mod erate correlations with neuropsychological test performance. For all tests except the Stroop, differences between residents of retirement villages and hostels were explained by age and education. Men performed better on the N ART than women, but this difference was eliminated when education was contr olled for statistically.