A pleasant 73-year-old male presents to the clinic with his wife. His wife states that she has noted increasing problems with his memory including forgetting to get some items on his grocery list and misplacing his car keys. You administer the MMSE in the office and he scores 24/30 which is consistent with Mild Dementia per the scoring guidelines. Your best response to his wife is:

I’m going to guess these are the choices: a) recreational skiing developed in the mid-19th century b) it was originally invented as a way of getting from place to place in snowy regions c) downhill skiing is currently the only common form of the sport d) it mostly evolved from snowshoeing- if that’s the cases then the answer would be c) downhill skiing is currently the only common form of the sport