Modification of everyday activities and its association with self-awareness in cognitively diverse older adults.

ABSTRACT: Cognitive impairment (CI) in older adults is frequently accompanied by difficulty performing complex everyday activities (e.g., managing finances). However, it is unclear if and how older adults with CI modify their activities (i.e., Do individuals continue, monitor, seek help with, change their approach to, or stop different activities?). In the current study, we examined if older adults with CI are concerned about their ability to carry out complex activities, if and how they modify activities based on their concern, and the factors associated with activity modification. We hypothesized that older adults with CI will more frequently be concerned about, and modify, everyday activities than cognitively healthy (HE) older adults, and that higher awareness of memory loss in the CI group woul

SUBMITTER: Shaked D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6837494 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature