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SynthesisNeurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology2024

The relation between cognitive functioning and activities of daily living in normal aging, mild cognitive impairment, and dementia: a meta-analysis.

Simona Raimo, Gianpaolo Maggi, Ciro Rosario Ilardi, Nicola Davide Cavallo, Valentina Torchia, Michael Andrew Pilgrom, Maria Cropano, María Dolores Roldán-Tapia, Gabriella Santangelo

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Synthesis in Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 65 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

65 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Simona RaimoDepartment of Psychology, 'Luigi Vanvitelli' University of Campania, Caserta, Italy. simona.raimo@unicz.it.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0687-9656
Gianpaolo MaggiDepartment of Psychology, 'Luigi Vanvitelli' University of Campania, Caserta, Italy.
Ciro Rosario IlardiDepartment of Psychology, 'Luigi Vanvitelli' University of Campania, Caserta, Italy.
Nicola Davide CavalloDepartment of Psychology, 'Luigi Vanvitelli' University of Campania, Caserta, Italy.
Valentina TorchiaDepartment of Medical and Surgical Sciences, 'Magna Graecia' University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy.
Michael Andrew PilgromDepartment of Psychology, 'Luigi Vanvitelli' University of Campania, Caserta, Italy.
Maria CropanoDepartment of Psychology, 'Luigi Vanvitelli' University of Campania, Caserta, Italy.
María Dolores Roldán-TapiaDepartment of Psychology, University of Almería, Almería, Spain.
Gabriella SantangeloDepartment of Psychology, 'Luigi Vanvitelli' University of Campania, Caserta, Italy.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Literature suggests that dementia and, more generally, cognitive impairment affect the capacity to carry out activities of daily living (ADL) in aging. However, it is important to decipher the weight of specific cognitive domains and neurodegenerative profiles mainly related to ADL difficulties. A meta-analysis was conducted to investigate the nature and strength of the association between cognitive functioning and ADL in healthy older adults, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and dementia. A comprehensive search of the PubMed, PsycINFO (PROQUEST), and Scopus databases for cross-sectional or longitudinal studies up until December 2022. Our meta-analytic results revealed that: overall, instrumental ADL (IADL) showed a significant association with executive functioning, in particular, abstraction ability/concept formation, set-shifting, and processing speed/complex attention/working memory, regardless of type of participants (i.e., healthy older adults, MCI, and dementia); whereas ADL (both basic ADL, BADL, and IADL) significantly correlated with global cognitive functioning and long-term verbal memory, with a moderator effect of clinical condition (e.g., increasing ES based on the level of cognitive impairment). Moreover, visuospatial and language abilities significantly correlated with ADL, mainly when performance-based tasks were used for ADL assessment. These findings emphasize the importance of neuropsychological assessment in aging to early identify people most at risk of functional decline and shed light on the need to consider specific cognitive abilities in rehabilitation programs.

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Activities of Daily LivingAgingCognitive DysfunctionDementiaCognitionExecutive FunctionHumansActivity of daily livingDementiaFunctional statusMild cognitive impairmentOlder adults

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