Thirty-three per cent of the hospital beds were occupied with ALC patients; 63% had a diagnosis of dementia. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Research
27,780 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
The costs of illness can be huge; medical bankruptcy is a significant problem in the United States [9]. 1 key finding →
Participants: 27,000 Evidence: moderate
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This study found that awareness of home-based nursing, interest in home-based care for older people, and attitudes toward filial responsibility significantly influence the intention to work in home-based care. 5 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional Participants: 236 Evidence: low
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The results were consistent for both nursing homes and data were aggregated. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Among the 1,035 patients in our dataset, 176 (17%) had a dementia diagnosis. 5 key findings →
Participants: 1,035 Evidence: low
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The Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set provides the dominant quality measurement framework for Medicare Advantage and commercial health plans, yet HEDIS lacks validated geriatric-specific quality indicators, equitable measurement standards for diverse older adult populations, and governance controls calibrated to the high-stakes Star Ratings financial incentive context. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Diabetes care guidelines recommend more relaxed glycemic targets for patients with specific chronic conditions because they are thought to have an increased risk of hypoglycemia, limited life expectancy, and/or high clinical complexity. 3 key findings →
Participants: 216,839 Evidence: low
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The burden of perioperative organ injury in China is significant even at a national level. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Among dementia patients, a PPH increased the risk of mortality by 4.7 percentage points (PP) (95% CI: 3.8%-5.6%). 2 key findings →
Participants: 67,110 Evidence: low
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Twenty-five studies met the inclusion criteria. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The study included 2.35 million beneficiaries in 2019 and 1.85 million in 2021. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Although individuals with dementia who reside in nursing homes are particularly susceptible to developing delirium, this condition is rarely recognised in these settings. 1 key finding →
Participants: 70 Evidence: low
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Twenty-four studies were identified and confirmed that patients with dementia frequently resort to the ED near the end of life, frequently more than once in their last year of life. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The analysis yielded three categories and nine subcategories describing surrogate decision-making practices regarding end-of-life care for people with dementia: (a) typical circumstances of end-of-life care planning, (b) expected roles of key personnel and related challenges and (c) important considerations. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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There are many studies of medical costs in late life in general, but nursing home residents' needs and the costs of external medical services and interventions outside of nursing home services are less well described. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Home-based medical care (HBMC) delivers physician or advanced practice provider-led medical services for patients in private residences and domiciliary settings (eg, assisted living facilities, group/boarding homes). 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Hospitalized patients with dementia transitioning to post-acute care may be particularly vulnerable to changes in post-acute care utilization driven by payment reforms; however, use of post-acute care in this population is incompletely understood. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Although not all settings currently require attention to the principles described, this article proposes these principles as best practice recommendations. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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The review of the literature disclosed that research on the experience of dying is limited; most of the studies have been conducted in acute care hospitals among people who were dying of cancer. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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The evidence about the role the designed and built environment plays in supporting individuals living with dementia has been steadily mounting for almost 40 years. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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'We DECide' had a positive influence on advance care planning policy. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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This paper provides an overview of the evidence on the perspective of health care professionals (HCPs) in relation to advance care planning (ACP) for people with dementia, residing in long-term care settings. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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38/100
Providing palliative care for residents with dementia in long-term care (LTC) settings is problematic due to their declining verbal abilities and related challenges. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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This study consolidates evidence that commonly used signs and symptoms of dehydration lack even basic levels of diagnostic accuracy in older adults, implying that many who are dehydrated are not being identified, thus compromising their health and well-being. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Advance care planning before an acute event is only the first step in a process of decision making. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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From across this tag
10 of the 976 studies in this tag, picked by a fixed rule (a hash of each study's address), not by score or date; each page of this list shows a different 10. The same 10 appear here every time.
- Nursing time devoted to medication administration in long-term care: clinical, safety, and resource implications
- Dying in hospital of terminal heart failure or severe dementia: the circumstances associated with death and the opinions of caregivers
- Choice of Received Long-Term Care – Individual Responses to Regional Nursing Home Provisions
- Clinical Characteristics, Frailty, and Mortality of Residents With COVID-19 in Nursing Homes of a Region of Madrid
- End-of-life decision making for nursing home residents with dementia
- Health System, Community-Based, or Usual Dementia Care for Persons With Dementia and Caregivers: The D-CARE Randomized Clinical Trial
- Development and validation of a prognostic index for 1-year mortality in older adults after hospitalization
- Should we include dementia diagnosis or cognitive impairment to predict home care cost? : an observational study using real-world data
- Hospital and ED use among Medicare beneficiaries with dementia varies by setting and proximity to death
- Quality of dying and quality of end-of-life care of nursing home residents in six countries: An epidemiological study
Where “Free full text” comes from
Free full text links and the Full text may need a subscription label come from Unpaywall, Europe PMC and OpenAlex records of free copies, checked 10 Oct 2026. A study with neither is unknown, not paywalled. Show only studies that are free to read
How the 0–100 score works — and why some entries are capped
This is alzhub's own score. It is not an official metric, not an impact factor, and no journal, publisher or ranking body endorses it. We built it so that a reader who is not a scientist can tell a landmark trial from a conference abstract without having to already know the difference. Every point comes from one of 20 components, all of them printed on the study itself, so you can disagree with our arithmetic rather than having to trust the total.
- Journal tier up to 10 pts
- Journal's citation record up to 4 pts
- Study design up to 12 pts
- Strength of evidence up to 5 pts
- Peer-review validation up to 10 pts
- How recent up to 5 pts
- Sample size up to 4 pts
- Effect reported up to 3 pts
- Studied in people up to 3 pts
- Randomised / blinded up to 2 pts
- Times cited up to 7 pts
- Citations per year up to 5 pts
- Impact for its field and year up to 6 pts
- Cited by studies here up to 6 pts
- Still being cited up to 4 pts
- Senior author's track record up to 4 pts
- Institution's track record up to 3 pts
- Multi-centre collaboration up to 3 pts
- Indexed in PubMed up to 2 pts
- Free to read up to 2 pts
Journals are placed in ordered tiers, never given a numeric impact factor — we could not verify current impact factors from a source we control, and an invented one would be worse than none. Tier 1 is the top-tier general journals (NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA, Nature, Science, Nature Medicine); tier 2 is the leading specialty journals; tier 3 is every other peer-reviewed journal. A separate part scores how much the journal's own papers are cited, which tells the tier-3 journals apart.
Two rules we don't bend. First, we never fill in a missing value: if a record does not state a sample size or a design, that component scores zero, and if we simply have no data for a part, such as a citation count, that part is left out and the study is scored on the parts we could check. The study card says which. Second, anything that is not a peer-reviewed article is capped at 16/100 and carries a warning chip — so a conference abstract or a company press release can never outrank a peer-reviewed paper, no matter how good it looks.
We rank a rigorous null result — a good trial showing that something does not work — above an early positive finding. Someone deciding whether to buy a supplement is served by that, and the rigour is already counted by the design and journal components.
The score is computed from the published data alone and is reproducible: the same file always yields the same numbers.
See the whole rubric drawn out → — four charts covering all 27,780 studies: how the scores are spread and where the cap bites, which of the 20 components the library is strong and weak on, which subjects rest on stronger evidence, and what kinds of study each subject is actually built from.
What this library is — and isn't
This is a large sample of the Alzheimer's literature, not an exhaustive index of it. It holds 27,780 records, built mostly from automated pulls of Europe PMC (61.1% of the library) and OpenAlex (18.3%), plus smaller pulls from PubMed, Crossref and medRxiv. If a study, a drug, or a finding isn't here, that is not evidence it doesn't exist in the literature — it may simply not have been pulled in yet.
1,034 records (3.7% of the library) are not peer-reviewed — 962 of those are preprints posted before any journal review, and the rest are conference abstracts, regulatory notices and reports. Every study card on this page states its status plainly, and the score above is capped for anything that isn't a peer-reviewed article.
See the full, machine-readable breakdown of this library's coverage →