The TLC study used an appropriate design and data collection procedures, along with acceptable recruitment capability. 5 key findings →
Participants: 15 Evidence: low
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31,380 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
Four themes were identified, along with eleven sub-themes associated with them: cognitive-behavioral shift (transitioning family roles, recognizing disease characteristics, focusing on health management, and responding positively and effectively); personal strength enhancement (enhancing coping capacity, increased psychological resilience and increased responsibility); improved relationships with others (harmonizing in family relations and benefiting from social interactions); and changes in life perceptions (reshaping of values, and reconstructing the meaning of life). 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The study found significant correlations between caregiver competence, QoL, and burden/stress with the QoL of individuals with dementia. 4 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional Evidence: low
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36/100
As the rates of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and AD and related dementias (ADRD) in the United States steadily rise, so too does the demand for informal caregiving. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Three themes identified include (a) LOVOT's role in supporting engagement and stimulating conversation, (b) the irreplaceability of human touch and emotional nuances, and (c) concerns about ownership and equitable resource allocation. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Fifteen papers were included. Studies focused on educational and system change to improve the care of people with DSD. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Dementia, especially Alzheimer’s disease, is increasing due to population ageing and is projected to nearly triple by 2050. 2 key findings →
Participants: 46 Evidence: low
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Participants described AI tools as potentially helpful for obtaining information, monitoring patients, managing medications and appointments, providing companionship, and conducting logistical tasks. 1 key finding →
Participants: 30 Evidence: low
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All dyads had at least one unmet need. A combined model incorporating predictors from both PWD and caregivers indicated that PLWD having lower education, being male, and exhibiting more neuropsychiatric symptoms are associated with more unmet needs. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The research findings revealed that 26.2% of the sample experienced psychological distress. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Emerging themes include (1) receptive to ACP, (2) mixed emotions, (3) barriers to ACP, (4) family consensus in decision-making, and (5) benefits of ACP. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Following the pilot field test, a sustainability plan was co-developed with community facilitators to support continued implementation and ensure that resources spent on DWDAlter were not lost. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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How does place shape informal caregiving for and by ageing people with cognitive impairment in rural South Africa? 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Evidence suggests that chronic caregiving stress contributes to biological changes such as immune dysregulation, inflammation, acceleration, aging, and potential cognitive decline in caregivers themselves. 1 key finding →
Design: narrative review Evidence: low
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Despite an aging population and acknowledged importance of advance care planning (ACP) for persons living with cognitive impairment, few engage in ACP. 5 key findings →
Participants: 17 Evidence: low
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Seventy-six percent (23/30) of enrolled dyads successfully completed the study. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Informal caregivers often seek additional support. 5 key findings →
Evidence: high
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The outbreaks added significant additional stress to the nursing workforce, which has historically experienced high turnover, chronic staffing shortages, and increased burnout in long‐term care settings. 1 key finding →
Participants: 20 Evidence: low
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Day care has a place in the menu of service for people with dementia living in the community. 1 key finding →
Participants: 100 Evidence: low
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• AT use was limited and AT type used varied by caregiver living arrangement. • Most used ATs: daily living support and risk prevention; risk response least used. • Daily living support ATs linked to fewer care hours. • Risk prevention ATs tied to longer PT, higher CarerQol-7D, and lower SRB scores. • Daily support and risk response ATs most likely to extend PT by over six months. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Thirty-one articles were included. This conceptual analysis revealed the evolution of in-home respite care service content over time and summarized three key attributes. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Respite for individuals caring for family living with dementia is a common way to take personal time away from caregiving. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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While both caregivers participated in physical activity, their case studies reveal opportunities to optimize physical activity interventions to support members of the caregiving dyad: (1) targeting mitochondrial fitness—the ability of mitochondria to maintain energy homeostasis with aging—so participants can mitigate the onset of NCDs, fatigue, and overall health outcomes; (2) promoting the self-care and psychological benefits of physical activity such as improved mood and social connectedness; and (3) improving the accurate perceptions of participants’ health and physical activity with specific measurable markers of physical activity. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has gained attention as a tool to support dementia care through efficient and personalized interventions. 5 key findings →
Participants: 19 Evidence: low
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33/100
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. 5 key findings →
Participants: 15 Evidence: low
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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.
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
- Randomized / 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
- Multicenter 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 31,380 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 31,380 records, built mostly from automated pulls of Europe PMC (65.6% of the library) and OpenAlex (16.2%), 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.
1,048 records (3.3% of the library) are not peer-reviewed — 973 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.
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