Psychometric Properties of a Flanker Task in a Sample of Patients with Dementia: A Pilot Study.

Background/aims: Reliable and valid neuropsychological tests for patients with dementia are scarce. To improve the assessment of attention and inhibitory control in dementia, we determined the feasibility, test-retest reliability, and validity of a Flanker task.

Methods: Participants with all-cause diagnosed dementia ( = 22, mean age 84 years; mean Mini-Mental State Examination [MMSE] score = 19.