This scoping review maps existing and emerging digital technologies for assessing instrumental activities of daily living and everyday functioning. The project focuses on how technology-based tools, including mobile apps, sensors, wearables, smart home technologies, virtual reality, simulations, and other digital approaches, may support more objective and ecologically valid assessment of functional abilities in midlife and older adults.
Methods / Approach: Scoping review; literature screening; Covidence; JBI-informed evidence synthesis; PRISMA-ScR reporting; systematic database search; data charting; narrative and descriptive synthesis
Output: Manuscript under preparation for journal submission.
Collaborators: Preeti Sunderaraman, Ph.D. (Brown University / Butler Hospital); Anna-Katharine Brem, Ph.D. (King’s College London / University of Bern); Nelson A. Roque, Ph.D. (The Pennsylvania State University); JPND DIGDEM Working Group
Research Areas: cognitive aging, daily context and experience, functional assessment, Lifespan Development, research translation, technology and everyday life