Only a minority of subjects initiated ACP. 3 key findings →
Participants: 127 Evidence: low
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31,380 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
Only a minority of subjects initiated ACP. 3 key findings →
Participants: 127 Evidence: low
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Surprisingly, compared to White female caregivers, all the other groups were 37% (95% CI 0.41-0.95) to 71% (95% CI 0.15-0.56) less likely to have emotional burden. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The cross-disciplinary expertise, required for GA, common in the days before medical specialization and enabled by the relative paucity of development in various fields compared with today, can be reborn with the advent of Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems that make the tools of medical geography accessible to a wide variety of health care researchers and clinical subspecialties. 4 key findings →
Participants: 127 Evidence: low
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Three overarching concepts were identified: "Pathways to Preparedness'", 'Multi-Level Barriers', and 'Bridging the Gap.' 5 key findings →
Participants: 13 Evidence: low
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Subjects with Alzheimer's disease (AD) show loss of cognitive functions and change in behavioral and functional state affecting the quality of their daily life and that of their families and caregivers. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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There is an urgent need for greater consideration of the ethical and legal implications that remote technological monitoring might have upon workforce morale, recruitment and retention. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Neurodegenerative processes of various types of dementia start years before symptoms, but the presence of a "neural reserve", which continuously feeds and supports neuroplastic mechanisms, helps the aging brain to preserve most of its functions within the "normality" frame. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Women living in areas with higher walkability showed slower rates of decline in immediate (estimate=0.019, SE=0.009) and delayed recall (estimate=0.018, SE=0.008) (Figure 1). 5 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate
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We synthesized caregivers' multiple challenges under five themes - (1) lack of information and awareness limit perceived need for services, (2) cultural norms and values influence decision to seek services, (3) complex processes and long waiting times hinder ability to reach services, (4) financial constraints and high costs force alternate care arrangements, and (5) inability to meet expectations and lack of family support limit engagement with services. 4 key findings →
Participants: 22 Evidence: low
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Incorporating AD blood tests into screening for AD clinical trials may reduce the time and financial cost of enrollment. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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[95% CI] = 0.148 [0.077-0.219]; executive function, 0.138 [0.067-0.208]; episodic memory, 0.020 [-0.051 to 0.091]; working memory, 0.128 [0.059-0.197]; visuospatial processing, 0.094 [0.023-0.164]) outperformed area-level SES in detecting cognitive deficits, and demonstrated widespread associations with poorer performance across cognitive domains. 5 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional Evidence: low
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Using data from South Korea’s 2018 teleconsultation pilot program involving 1232 patients, the analysis revealed that teleconsultation reduced societal costs per consultation by USD 7.92 for chronic diseases, USD 27.30 for dementia care, and USD 9.61 for rehabilitation. 4 key findings →
Participants: 1,232 Evidence: low
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The sense of food insecurity in a group of elderly people may be determined by the perception of distance to food outlets. 1 key finding →
Design: cross-sectional Evidence: low
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This study aims to analyze the relationship between cognitive function and out-of-pocket cost of the state change of multiple chronic conditions in individuals aged 60 or older. 3 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate
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Caregiver burden is a multidimensional phenomenon with significant effects on health and well-being. 5 key findings →
Participants: 29 Evidence: low
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Among PWD with Medicaid, out-of-pocket costs for nursing homes and assisted living facilities were significantly higher (60%) compared to those TM (33%) and MA (30%). 5 key findings →
Design: cohort study Evidence: moderate
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Lower objective SES was associated with poorer performance on all cognitive domains: episodic memory (β = 0.115, p = 0.003), executive function (β = 0.210, p 0.05). 5 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional Evidence: high
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Familial frontotemporal dementia (fFTD) is an autosomal dominant heritable form of FTD, onsetting in mid-life, characterized by behavioral and personality changes. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Policy implementation was associated with a significant decrease in patient out-of-pocket cost. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Each year’s cognitive functions were linked to the prior year’s food insecurity values. 1 key finding →
Design: cohort study Evidence: moderate
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Digital transformation in banking has significantly improved efficiency, including in the critical Letter of Credit (LC) examination area. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Four themes described current primary care practitioner practices in dementia diagnosis and management (1) Family concern triggers dementia investigation (2) GPs delay conversations about dementia (3) Completing routine cognitive assessments in the 75+ health assessment, and (4) Variability in post-diagnostic care. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Data point to cultural, socioeconomic and systemic barriers to accessing quality EOL care for PLWD. 5 key findings →
Participants: 29 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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Respondents (N=69) identified access to resources as the most important unmet need for caregivers (53%). 5 key findings →
Participants: 69 Evidence: low
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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.
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.
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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