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February 25, 2026Aging & Mental Health0 citations

Differential relations among depressive symptoms, global cognition, and multiple measures of everyday function in a sample of community-dwelling older adults

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KHKimberly HalberstadterMKMarina KaplanRDRoss Divers

Key Points

  • The aim is to explore how depressive symptoms relate to cognition and everyday functioning in older adults.
  • Examined relationships among depressive symptoms, cognition, and various everyday function measures.
  • Used self-reports and performance-based tasks to assess multiple variables.
  • Considered interactions with cognitive function in older adults.
  • Different types of depressive symptoms differentially impact self-reported everyday function.
  • Performance-based tasks show varied relations depending on the type of depressive symptom.
  • Cognition plays a significant role in how mood influences functional outcomes.

Abstract

Functional measures are differentially influenced by mood. Self-reports are influenced by apathy symptoms and related motivational changes. Relations between mood and performance-based tasks may depend on symptom types, performance-based variables, and interactions with cognition. Comprehensive assessments should include multiple everyday function measures.

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Halberstadter et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/699e90eff5123be5ed04e265https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2026.2624566
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