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Rural‐urban disparities in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia: The role of state‐level nurse practitioner policies

30/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: ADRD mortality rates were slightly higher in rural areas compared to urban areas, with no significant differences between rural-adjacent and rural-nonadjacent counties in recent years. +4 more findings

• Health Equity
• Policy

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“But My Speech Is Fine...”: Expanding the Speech-Language Pathologist’s Role in Nursing Home Dementia Care

26/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Innovation in Aging

Key finding: Preliminary findings suggest these adaptations improved nursing assistant engagement, consistency in strategy use, and resident interaction quality. +1 more finding

• Care Services

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Medicare Skilled Home Health Care Quality: Are We Measuring What Matters for People Living With Dementia?

31/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Innovation in Aging

Key finding: We found significant county-level variability in utilization of high-quality home health. +1 more finding

• Care Services
• Policy

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White Matter Hyperintensities Predict Driving Behavior Changes in Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease

50/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: Our study included 74,275 weeks of driving data (2015-2024, average follow-up 6.1 years). +4 more findings

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Frequency of Unrecognized and Undertreated Dementia Risk Factors in Community‐dwelling Latino and Black Americans

46/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: 105 participants (47 Latino, 55 Black), 64.7 (±8.8) years-old, female 66 (63%), with 16 (±2.3) years of education were assessed. +4 more findings

• Risk Factors
• Health Equity

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Inequities in dementia diagnosis and care: insights from a universal health care system

41/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: Of the 193,834 community-dwelling people with a new diagnosis of dementia, around 20% belonged to each material deprivation category. +4 more findings

• Care Services
• Health Equity
• Diagnosis

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Associations of Mid‐to‐Late Life Neighborhood Disadvantage with Cognitive Trajectories and Dementia Outcomes in the Health and Retirement Study

50/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: The sample (n = 26,728) was equally distributed across gender (55.1% women) and education (50.8% completed HS/GED diploma), and 30% came from under-represented racial/ethnic groups. +4 more findings

• Risk Factors
• Health Equity

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Home Health Delivery for Persons With Dementia: Impacts of the New Medicare Payment System

41/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Innovation in Aging

Key finding: Medicare-funded home health care (HH) is a crucial resource helping Persons with Dementia (PwD) meet their care needs while aging in place.

• Care Services
• Policy

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Community Rates of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias and Supportive Services in CT, MA, & RI

33/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Innovation in Aging

Key finding: The consequences of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) are well documented, but beyond the individual, family, and health system costs are implications for communities that are not well-studied. +4 more findings

• Caregiving

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Effect of the 2020 CMS telehealth expansion on diagnostic prevalence of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

33/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: Average county‐level ADRD prevalence was 11.06% across the pre‐expansion period and 7.15% post‐expansion. +3 more findings

• Diagnosis

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Mortality and Institutionalization After a Potentially Preventable Hospitalization Among People with Dementia

38/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Innovation in Aging

Key finding: Among dementia patients, a PPH increased the risk of mortality by 4.7 percentage points (PP) (95% CI: 3.8%-5.6%). +1 more finding

• Care Services

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Social determinants of pharmacological dementia management: results from IDEAS

38/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: We used multilevel logistic regression with a random site intercept to test whether the probability of change in management associated with social determinants, race/ADI interactions with amyloid‐positivity, comorbidities, and clinical setting, adjusting for demographics. +4 more findings

• Health Equity

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Caregiver Strain and Perceived Impact of COVID‐19 on Dementia Caregiving

45/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: Of 1,073 caregivers, 33% reported high baseline strain. +4 more findings

• Caregiving

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Rural and Urban Differences in Dementia Diagnosis in the Western U.S

30/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Innovation in Aging

Key finding: Of 6,911,104 patients (min=Idaho: 45,160; max=California: 2.46 million), we observed a substantial difference in overall diagnosed prevalence across states of residence: Oregon and Montana had the highest diagnosed prevalence (6.6% and 6.5%, respectively); New Mexico had the lowest (2.3%). +3 more findings

• Diagnosis
• Health Equity

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Understanding Social Determinants of Health and Cognitive Impairment Risk in Diverse Populations Using Machine Learning: A HABS‐HD Study

38/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: Income was among the top risk factors for all three groups. +4 more findings

• Health Equity

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Community Matters: How Neighborhood Cohesion Buffers Against Cognitive Impairment via Mental Health Pathways in Black Older Adults

40/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: The overall sample (N =329) was predominantly female (76.4%) with a mean age of 64.5 (range 45-92) and an average of 14.9 years of education (Table 1). +4 more findings

• Health Equity

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The association of neighborhood deprivation with sleepiness among cognitively normal older adults with and without subjective cognitive decline

39/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: Among the study population at large, there was a statistically significant association between ADI and ESS scores (β = 0.490, 95% CI [0.138, 0.842], p = 0.007). +4 more findings

• Early Stage
• Lifestyle

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Risk Factors for Cognitive Impairment and Dementia Differ Across Classification Codes Evaluating Disadvantaged and Rural Regions in a Kentucky Appalachian Cohort

38/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: Diagnostic classifications, mean age, and education did not differ significantly across classifications. +4 more findings

• Risk Factors
• Lifestyle
• Health Equity

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Association of neighbourhood walkability with pathophysiological markers and depressive symptoms by area deprivation index and cognitive status in older adults

44/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: Participants' age ranged from 45 to 87, 53% were women, and 26% were diagnosed with dementia (39% AD, 18% Lewy Body and 17% Frontotemporal Dementia; Table 1). +4 more findings

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Associations of social determinants of health (SDOH) with dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI), the HABS‐HD Study

37/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: All the five dimensional SDOH disadvantages were significantly associated with higher odds of both dementia and MCI in the overall sample (p <0.05) (Figure 1). +4 more findings

• Early Stage
• Health Equity

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Lecanemab adoption and geographic variation among patients with diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer's dementia in Medicare fee‐for‐service beneficiaries

38/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: Patients (N = 2,512) receiving lecanemab infusion had a mean age of 75.4 (standard deviation = 5.7) years as compared to 80.8 (8.9) years in patients with MCI/AD not receiving the infusion. +4 more findings

• Treatments
• Risk Factors
• Early Stage

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Social determinants of pharmacological dementia management: results from IDEAS

40/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: We used multilevel logistic regression with a random site intercept to test whether the probability of change in management associated with social determinants, race/ADI interactions with amyloid‐positivity, comorbidities, and clinical setting, adjusting for demographics. +4 more findings

• Health Equity

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Who misses MCI diagnosis before dementia?

45/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: Among 32,430 individuals (mean age at first hospital encounter 76.6±10.9 years; 59.1% female; 4.2% African American; 5.0% Hispanic), only 16.0% received an MCI diagnosis before their dementia diagnosis. +4 more findings

• Diagnosis
• Early Stage
• Health Equity

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Bridging the Digital Divide: Community-Engaged Strategies for Implementing Technology in Rural Adult Day Centers

32/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Innovation in Aging

Key finding: Successfully embedding technology into long-term care settings requires intentional, evidence-based community engagement strategies that address the unique needs of providers, caregivers, and persons living with dementia.

• Digital Tools
• Care Services
• Health Equity

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Healthcare Utilization Among Hispanic Medicare Enrollees with Complex Chronic Conditions: Puerto Rico and Florida

35/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Innovation in Aging

Key finding: These findings highlight potential access and quality-of-care issues in PR, with implications for Medicare Advantage benchmarks. +3 more findings

• Policy
• Health Equity

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