The Assessment of Functional Competence in a Clinical Sample of Older Adults along the Alzheimer’s Continuum

Difficulties in performing “Instrumental Activities of Daily Living” (IADL) such as managing finances and medications can lead to loss of independence among older adults. Performance‐based assessments allow for an objective and systematic quantification of IADLs utilizing real life paradigms. In an ongoing NIA‐funded study, we evaluated the association of a recently developed performance‐based assessment of functional ability (Night Out Task, NOT, Schmitter‐Edgecombe, 2021) with a performance‐based measure of financial capacity and an informant‐based measure of functional and decision‐making capacity in non‐demented older adults with varying degrees of cognitive impairment.