[Cognitive assessment in the elderly. Normative data of a Spanish population sample older than 70 years].

Background And Objective: To define the parameters of normal cognitive performance in an easy to administer neuropsychological battery of a Spanish population sample of elderly over 70 years.

Subjects And Method: We examined 527 home dwelling elderly from the longitudinal study Envejecer en Leganés, 71 to 99 years old (mean age [SD] 79 [6.2] years, 51.