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A 72-year-old woman who came to Australia from Vietnam forty years ago is brought to a memory clinic by her son, who describes two years of gradually worsening forgetfulness. She left school at the age of ten, speaks little English, and a professional interpreter is present for the consultation. She is alert and attentive, is afebrile with no acute illness, and takes no regular medicines. You want a baseline measure of her cognition that will still be valid when it is repeated in six months. Which one of the following instruments is most appropriate?
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