That's great, thanks Anthony, I shall have a look at this review!

I have read most of Giovanetti's (if not all papers) in this field, but it is usually predominantly the NAT that they employ. This is really informative, but I meant really whether there are any more studies that more or less observe, let's say, as many different IADLs in a more naturalistic set up, which gives the PwD, or other clinical patients, less a feel of a structured experiment.

Our group does naturalistic assessments of driving in people with dementia. See...

Ott BR, Papandonatos GD, Davis JD, Barco PP. Naturalistic validation of an on-road driving test

of older drivers. Human Factors, 54(4):663 – 674, 2012. PMCID:PMC3568996

Davis J, Papandonatos GD, Miller LA, Hewitt SD, Festa EK, Heindel WC, Ott BR. Road test and naturalistic driving performance in healthy and cognitively impaired older adults: Does environment matter? J Am Geriatr Soc, 60(11):2056-2062, 2012. PMCID:PMC 3498523

Festa EK, Ott BR, Manning KJ, Davis JD, Heindel WC. Effect of cognitive status on self-regulatory driving behavior in older adults: An assessment of naturalistic driving using in-car video recordings. J Geriatr Psychiatr Neurol, 26(1):10-18, 2013. PMID 23385363

Thank you for this, that is really interesting. There has certainly been a rise in interest in driving assessments in elderly and dementia! A really important issue considering everyone's safety really

Hi Clarissa

Have you already read about the IADL Involvement (Capacity/Performance) Scale or the IADL Clinical Assessment Protocol (CAP)?

http://www.interrai.org/protocols.html

http://www.interrai.org/scales.html

Thank you Dirk, no, I haven't. I shall take a look at this!

Also: ADL CAP and  ADL Scale ...

ADL: Morris JN, Fries BE, Morris SA. Scaling ADLs within the MDS. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 1999; 54(11):M546-53.

Thanks, yes, of course, I am aware of Katz' basic ADL scale ;)