Relative to our understanding of the memory and language deficits associated with dementia and mild cognitive impairment, little is known about problems with everyday action performance (e.g., meal preparation, grooming). To date, much of the clinical research has relegated everyday functioning as an outcome variable, and the experimental work on object knowledge and action sequencing has failed to influence clinical practice. This talk will review a series of studies that cover the middle ground between the conventional clinical work and basic experimental studies by directly examining everyday action performance and attempting to understand errors from a neurocognitive framework. A novel neuropsychological model for understanding everyday action impairment that has emerged from these studies will be described, along with the implications of this model for clinical assessment and intervention with older adults. An MP4 video file of the talks is available here (right-click and save to download).