Dementia: Functional Status Assessment
Percentage of patients with dementia for whom an assessment of functional status was performed at least once in the last 12 months.
Last updated: January 15, 2026
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📖Clinical Rationale
Maintaining or increasing physical functioning levels is a desired outcome. This is key to maintaining quality of life and reducing caregiver burden. This requires regular assessment of function in multiple domains. In routine practice, persons with dementia may not be assessed regularly for changes in their ability to perform both basic and instrumental activities of daily living.
Frequent and comprehensive assessments will allow health care providers to track these changes and to make timely interventions aimed at preserving function or mitigating disability. When planning interventions to improve or maintain function, it is important to consider a broad range of causes of functional impairment, including impaired cognition.
📝Clinical Recommendations
Perform regular, comprehensive person-centered assessments and timely interim assessments. Assessments, conducted at least every 6 months, should prioritize issues that help the person with dementia to live fully. These include assessments of the individual and care partner’s relationships and subjective experience and assessment of cognition, behavior, and function, using reliable and valid tools.
Assessment is ongoing and dynamic, combining nomothetic (norm-based) and idiographic (individualized) approaches.
📋Implementation Notes
This measure contains one strata defined by a single submission criteria. This measure produces a single performance rate. For the purposes of MIPS implementation, this patient-process measure is submitted a minimum of once per patient during the performance period. The most advantageous quality data code will be used if the measure is submitted more than once.
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