Lay Summary
Cognitive impairment affects memory and thinking. It makes tasks like dressing, bathing and eating harder. Health-care workers use questionnaires to find out where someone struggles. This helps them plan better care. We reviewed questionnaires for older adults with memory and thinking problems. We found good ones that give important information. Using these questionnaires helps health-care workers support people with daily tasks. This study suggests testing the questionnaires more to improve them.
Key points for Occupational Therapy
- The most validated questionnaires assessing activities of daily living among older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are the Amsterdam instrumental activities of daily living, the disability assessment for dementia (DAD) and the Bayer ADL scale.
- This review highlights the importance of assessing performance in daily activities in relation to executive function in the context of older adults living with MCI and AD.
- The three identified questionnaires overall possess good psychometric properties, although not all properties were validated with high methodological quality.
References
Osman, A., Radman, D., Belchior, P., & Gélinas, I. (2025). A systematic review of psychometric properties of questionnaires assessing activities of daily living among older adults with neurocognitive disorders. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 72(1), e13013.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1440-1630.13013
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