Differential relations between depressive symptoms and everyday function in older adults using multiple modes of functional assessment
Kimberly Halberstadter, Marina Kaplan, Moira Mckniff, Sophia L Holmqvist, Molly B Tassoni, Stephanie M Simone, Tania Giovannetti · 2025
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Kimberly Halberstadter and six co-authors asked how depressive symptoms relate to daily functioning in older adults, in a 2025 paper. Feeling low might sap motivation, cloud thinking, or simply color how people judge their own abilities. The team tested eighty-eight older adults with normal cognition or mild impairment. Each did a hands-on task: making breakfast and lunch with real objects, scored from video for time and errors.
Participants and their partners also filled in questionnaires about daily tasks, and everyone took thinking tests plus a depression scale. Depression scores tracked both questionnaires but not the hands-on task. Thinking scores tracked self-reports and the hands-on task, but not partner reports. The two questionnaires agreed with each other yet not with the observed task. The authors conclude that how function is measured changes the story depression seems to tell.
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| CREATOR | Kimberly Halberstadter, Marina Kaplan, Moira Mckniff, Sophia L Holmqvist, Molly B Tassoni, Stephanie M Simone, Tania Giovannetti |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |