1. Development of the Telephone-based Daily Instrumental Activities of Living (T-DIAL) to assess financial management remotely in older adults.
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Thompson, Jennifer L., Woods, Steven Paul, Webber, Troy A., Medina, Luis D., Podell, Kenneth, Yoshida, Hanako, Evans, Darrian, Ridgely, Natalie C., Babicz, Michelle A., Gomez, Elliott M., and Mustafa, Andrea
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ACTIVITIES of daily living ,EXECUTIVE function ,OLDER people ,NEUROBEHAVIORAL disorders ,COGNITIVE aging - Abstract
The current study evaluated the reliability and validity of a novel, performance-based banking task in 60 younger (18–34 years) and 60 older (50–85 years) adults. All participants completed the Telephone-based Daily Instrumental Activities of Living (T-DIAL) using interactive voice response technology to complete a series of mock actions with a financial institution via telephone. The T-DIAL showed strong inter-rater reliability and internal consistency. T-DIAL accuracy was significantly and independently related to better self-reported instrumental activities of daily living and executive functions at a large effect size. Findings from this study provided preliminary supportive evidence for the reliability and validity of the T-DIAL, which had robust associations with manifest everyday functioning and higher-order cognitive ability. Future work is needed on the psychometrics (e.g. test–retest reliability, normative standards), and construct validity (e.g. diagnostic accuracy) of the T-DIAL in neurocognitive disorders and under-served communities for whom remote evaluations might be particularly relevant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2025
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