Brief interviews6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() For example, a cognitive impairment rate of 23% was observed in a large longitudinal study of community dwelling older adults, 4 and cognitive decline is estimated to affect 15 to 35% of hospitalized older adults receiving general medicine services. 1, 3 Cognitive impairment and cognitive decline are known to affect community dwelling elders. 1 Typically, complex IADL performance is not directly observable in acute, postacute, or primary care settings, 2 and other methods of determining the presence of subtle, but still potentially significant, cognitive impairments are limited. The ability to predict an individual’s ability to perform instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) in real-world contexts is notoriously difficult. ![]()
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