Dorien Bangma

Abstract Making adequate financial decisions is very important to our autonomy. Loss of or reduction in the capability to make those decisions often has major consequences, such as financial shortfalls or financial abuse. An important question is how to assess that capability in a person. Capability to make financial decisions is a wide-ranging concept, and it can therefore be difficult to assess all the aspects and concepts that fall under this heading correctly and systematically. This article presents a battery of seven tests of financial competence, financial performance and related contextual factors – concepts that in Appelbaum et al.’s framework underlies the capability to make financial decisions. In order to assess the extent to which and the way in which neurodegenerative disorders affect that capability, the performance scores of nine patients (i.e., three with Alzheimer’s disease, three with mild cognitive impairment and three with Parkinson’s disease) on the test battery were presented and discussed.