Statistical harmonization of everyday functioning and dementia‐related behavioral measures across nine surveys and trials

Efforts to harmonize measures of everyday function and dementia‐related behaviors are needed to synthesize across studies in dementia research. There have been some psychometric attempts to harmonize everyday function for secondary analysis, but far less for dementia‐related behaviors.

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