Relationship between metacognitive skills, executive functioning, and basic and instrumental activities of daily living in a sample of older adults from the city of Manizales, Colombia

Metacognition refers to the capacity to reflect upon, monitor, and regulate one’s own cognitive processes, including awareness of oneself as a learner and of the demands imposed by the surrounding environment. To date, the most extensively developed line of research has focused on metacognitive monitoring and metacomprehension, predominantly within educational settings. However, the extension and application of this body of work to the neuropsychology of normal and pathological aging—particularly in relation to executive functioning and performance in instrumental activities of daily living—constitute an emerging and increasingly relevant line of research.