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Harmonization Remains Unresolved: The Case of White Matter Hyperintensity Using ComBat And Deming Regression

40/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: Using a unique dataset of the same participants scanned close in time on different scanner and protocols, we found that (1) MMD measurements were useful to test the need/improvement due to harmonization; (2) ComBat was not substantially better at creating compatible distributions between scanner vendors than Deming regression, and both were sometimes inadequate. +3 more findings

• Brain Scans

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Vascular risk factors mediate the relationship between education and white matter hyperintensities

41/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: Higher education was associated with lower vascular risk (p < 0.001) and WMH burden (p = 0.004). +4 more findings

• Risk Factors

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Artificial Intelligence in Hospice Dementia care: Perspectives of Hospice Staff and Family Caregivers

34/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Innovation in Aging

Key finding: Artificial intelligence (AI) has gained attention as a tool to support dementia care through efficient and personalized interventions. +4 more findings

• Caregiving
• End-of-Life Care
• Digital Tools

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Palliative Care for Community-Dwelling Persons Living With Dementia: A Concept Analysis

32/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Innovation in Aging

Key finding: Antecedents of acute care use and poor prognosis may suggest late utilization of palliative care among PLWD and lack of palliative care needs screening.

• End-of-Life Care
• Care Services

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Advocacy and Palliative Care as a Framework for Dignified Dementia Care in African Settings

31/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: Even though the person we knew and loved is no longer with us, the person we currently know and love is still important and deserving of a respectable existence. +4 more findings

• End-of-Life Care
• Caregiving

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Re‐framing Palliative Care for Latino Caregivers of Persons with Dementia

32/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: Palliative care should be introduced as a culturally tailored set of services to assist families in ways that align with their values and caregiving practices.

• End-of-Life Care
• Caregiving
• Health Equity

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The Dementia Palliative Care Clinical Trials Training Program

34/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Innovation in Aging

Key finding: Of these, a growing number have secured funding, initiated collaborations, contributed to dementia palliative care research, and increased confidence and comfort with conducting clinical trials (p<.05). +4 more findings

• End-of-Life Care
• Clinical Trials

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Designing a Palliative Care Pathway for Enhanced Dementia Care

27/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Innovation in Aging

Key finding: Riverside Health has developed a new palliative care pathway to serve as an innovative standard of person-centered care for persons living with dementia (PLWD) and their care partners.

• End-of-Life Care
• Care Services
• Caregiving

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End-of-Life Care of Assisted Living Residents with Advanced Dementia: Views of Informal Caregivers

37/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Innovation in Aging

Key finding: Most persons with dementia in the U.S. die in long-term care communities. +4 more findings

• End-of-Life Care
• Caregiving
• Care Services

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Dying with Dementia: Is Hospice the Answer?

28/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Innovation in Aging

Key finding: 1 in 3 older adults die with or from dementia. +4 more findings

• End-of-Life Care

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Home as Haven: Palliative and End‐of‐Life Care for People with Dementia in Non‐Residential Settings

30/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: Through case studies and qualitative data, the presentation aims to provide practical insights into how person-centred palliative care can empower people with dementia to experience comfort and continuity in the familiarity of their own homes. +4 more findings

• End-of-Life Care

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End-of-life care of people with dementia in Latin America: A qualitative analysis

31/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Palliative Care and Social Practice

Key finding: Although there were differences between and within the countries, end-of-life care was often affected by the socioeconomic contexts, which represent barriers for access to healthcare services; under-tapped informal caregivers' potential; societal norms and cultural expectations around care and informal caregiving; the dementia-trajectory itself; and an inadequate assurance of policies, skilled workforce, and services. +2 more findings

• End-of-Life Care

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Ambiguities About Discussing End of Life in the Context of Advance Care Planning in Dementia

32/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Innovation in Aging

Key finding: Advance care planning (ACP) in dementia has been defined as a communication process adapted to the person’s capacity, which includes, and is continued with family, in our European Association for Palliative Care Delphi study Delphi study with an expert panel from 33 countries. +1 more finding

• End-of-Life Care

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Contrasting Approaches in Advance Care Planning in Dementia as Perceived by General Practitioners

44/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Innovation in Aging

Key finding: Various approaches to advance care planning are in use and generally acceptable also for persons with dementia and their care partners.

• Clinical Trials
• End-of-Life Care

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Scales to measure core outcomes for the quality of dementia care in home or residential aged care facilities: a rapid review

40/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care BMJ Open

Key finding: A total of 88 validated scales were identified. +4 more findings

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Assessing Palliative Care Needs in Nursing Homes Among Residents With Cognitive Impairment: UPLIFT Trial Findings

39/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Innovation in Aging

Key finding: A greater number of needs (B=.42), polypharmacy (B=.33), and unmanaged symptoms (B=.31) significantly predicted higher triage priority (p<.001).

• Care Services
• End-of-Life Care
• Clinical Trials

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Neuropalliative Care in Dementia

28/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care CONTINUUM Lifelong Learning in Neurology

Key finding: Patients and their caregivers and families confronting dementia often face heavy burdens from difficult-to-control symptoms, uncertainty about the future, and a high risk of care partner burnout. +4 more findings

• End-of-Life Care
• Treatments
• Caregiving

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Palliative Care Resource Utilization in Patients with Prion Disease

41/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: 172 patients with symptomatic prion disease were identified. 165 (94.8%) patients experienced ≥1 symptom/sign likely to benefit from palliative care, yet only 113 (65.7%) patients accessed palliative care resources during the illness course (hospice care: 39.7%; palliative care consultation: 14.9% inpatient, 6.9% outpatient; both: 3.4%). +4 more findings

• End-of-Life Care
• Care Services

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Need for palliative care in patients with chronic diseases in a hospital in a developing country

45/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Palliative Care and Social Practice

Key finding: We included 150 patients; 67.3% met criteria for PC need. +3 more findings

• End-of-Life Care
• Care Services

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Monitoring night‐time safety in households with dementia using ambient sensing technologies: a rule‐based decision algorithm

38/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: Validation was conducted across 94 households over 365 nights, totalling 297,297 monitoring hours. +4 more findings

• Side Effects

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The effects of psychosocial interventions on reducing hospitalisation in people with dementia: an umbrella review

57/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: 1,318 unique titles and abstracts were screened, of which 20 articles met inclusion criteria. +4 more findings

• Care Services

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Content validity, practicality and testing of the reliability of various tools for the detection and screening of delirium in residents with dementia in German nursing homes: a study protocol

38/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety BMJ Open

Key finding: Although individuals with dementia who reside in nursing homes are particularly susceptible to developing delirium, this condition is rarely recognised in these settings.

• Diagnosis
• Care Services

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Cerebral metabolic covariance in delirium: pattern response to symptomatic changes

38/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: Delirium exhibited a metabolic profile of network dysfunction that may be modifiable and clinically responsive. +3 more findings

• Brain Scans

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Air under the skin, shadows in the mind: an enigmatic case report on hyperactive delirium or Sundowning triggered by subcutaneous emphysema postpneumothorax

31/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Minerva Psychiatry

Key finding: Sundowning Syndrome (SS) is a clinically observed phenomenon, primarily associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), characterized by the exacerbation of neuropsychiatric symptoms during the late afternoon or evening, or in conditions of reduced ambient illumination. +2 more findings

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Behavioral and neuronal substrates of serious game‐based computerized cognitive training in cognitive decline related to Alzheimer's Disease

49/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: Significant improvement over time was observed in aggregated domain specific composite scores of episodic and semantic memory and spatial abilities. +4 more findings

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