Taking a positive spin: preserved initiative and performance of everyday activities across mild Alzheimer’s, vascular and mixed dementia. (International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2017, 32(9), p. 959-967)

The literature commonly evaluates those daily activities which are impaired in dementia. However, in the mild stages, people with dementia (PwD) are still able to initiate and perform many of those tasks. With a lack of research exploring variations between different dementia diagnoses, this study sought to investigate those daily activities with modest impairments in the mild stages and how these compare between Alzheimer’s disease (AD), vascular dementia (VaD) and mixed dementia.

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