Feeding tube use is significantly more common in Blacks than in Whites. 5 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional Participants: 4,920 Evidence: low
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Research
30,580 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
The study included 100.7 million people (51.5% male, 68.0% with ≥70 years), 20.4% died from cancer and 5.8% from dementia; 30.8% of deaths took place at home. 1 key finding →
Participants: 100 Evidence: low
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Vitality was associated with disability primarily through the mediation of other IC domains. 2 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Participants: 1,389 Evidence: moderate
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Delirium occurred in 239 (9%) of 2721 observations or 131 (16%) of 797 patients. 5 key findings →
Participants: 797 Evidence: low
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56/100
Relative to white caregivers, blacks more often provided in excess of 40 hr of care per week (54.3% vs 38.6%) and more often cared for an older adult with dementia (27.1% vs 20.7%) who was living below the federal poverty line (31.7% vs 11.9%) or was Medicaid-eligible (42.2% vs 11.8%). 1 key finding →
Participants: 992 Evidence: low
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Older patients on hemodialysis are at substantial risk of diagnosis with dementia and Alzheimer's disease, and carrying these diagnoses is associated with a twofold higher mortality. 4 key findings →
Participants: 356,668 Evidence: low
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Our pilot study results indicate that it is feasible to recruit, retain, and provide follow-up telephone coaching to older adults after hip fracture. 5 key findings →
Design: randomized controlled trial Participants: 30 Evidence: high
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This study suggests that the Intensive Care Delirium Screening Checklist can easily be applied by a clinician or a nurse in a busy critical care setting to screen all patients even when communication is compromised. 3 key findings →
Participants: 93 Evidence: low
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SubD was more prevalent than MDD in these primary care settings. 3 key findings →
Participants: 221 Evidence: low
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Variation in use of APMs in U.S. nursing homes based upon facility characteristics exemplifies the need for a more systematic protocol guiding the use of these medications, along with heightened regulatory policies and enforcement. 2 key findings →
Design: meta-analysis Evidence: high
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55/100
The ongoing development of robotics on the one hand and, on the other hand, the foreseen relative growth in number of elderly individuals suffering from dementia, raises the question of which contribution robotics could have to rationalize and maintain, or even improve the quality of care. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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An accurate COVID-19 mortality prediction model among hospitalized patients based on the clinical features and comorbidities may play a beneficial role in the clinical setting to better management of patients with COVID-19. 3 key findings →
Participants: 250 Evidence: moderate
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We believe this information important when counseling elderly patients regarding the risks of mortality and PJI after TKA and risk-adjusting publicly reported TKA patient outcomes. 2 key findings →
Participants: 83,011 Evidence: low
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Exposure to ACH medications is independently and specifically associated with a subsequent increase in delirium symptom severity in elderly medical inpatients with diagnosed delirium. 3 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Participants: 278 Evidence: moderate
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We have prospectively followed over a 5-year period 434 volunteers who were at intake ambulatory, functional, presumably nondemented, and between 75 and 85 years of age. 5 key findings →
Evidence: moderate
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DeMonte Jr., MD, Joshua Chodosh, MD, MSHS, Xinping Cui, PhD, Stefanie Vassar, MS, Naihua Duan, PhD, and Martin Lee, PhDReduced Health Care Costs Associated With Disease Management for Chronic Heart Failure: A Study Using Three Methods to Examine the Financial Impact of a Heart Failure Disease Management Program Among Medicare Advantage EnrolleesEffects of Nurse Management on the Quality of Heart Failure Care in Minority Communities A Randomized TrialJane E. 1 key finding →
Design: randomized controlled trial Evidence: high
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55/100
Prevalence studies indicate that as many as 50% of older adults experience bothersome pain on a regular basis (Dahlhamer et al., 2018; Galicia-Castillo & Weiner, 2023; Larsson et al., 2017; Lin et al., 2020; Rikard et al., 2023). 5 key findings →
Design: randomized controlled trial Participants: 2,041 Evidence: high
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analysis of returning home at discharge included 87,797 patients; 57,104 (65%) were discharged home. 5 key findings →
Participants: 87,797 Evidence: moderate
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It remains a common yet underrecognised complication in older surgical patients, significantly influencing recovery, prolonging hospital stays and increasing healthcare costs and workload.1 Although traditionally peri-operative care has prioritised physical stabilisation, effectively addressing POD requires a holistic approach that also considers patients’ emotional and social well being.2 One well established strategy for managing delirium is the active involvement of family and caregivers. 5 key findings →
Design: systematic review Evidence: high
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DAGs provide visual representations of assumptions made, and provide an objective approach to appropriate statistical adjustments. 5 key findings →
Design: cohort study Evidence: moderate
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Across several cohorts, delirium is emerging as an important prognostic signal, independent of chronic markers of baseline morbidity, that identifies patients at markedly increased risk of death or future dementia. 5 key findings →
Design: cohort study Participants: 2,556 Evidence: moderate
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Although intraoperative hypotension initially appeared to be associated with postoperative delirium, this association was no longer significant when accounting for temporal improvements in perioperative care. 5 key findings →
Design: cohort study Participants: 5,171 Evidence: moderate
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Physician-delivered palliative care. ANALYTICAL APPROACH: Descriptive statistics characterizing physician-delivered palliative care. 5 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional Participants: 18,452 Evidence: low
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To evaluate characteristics of Medicare beneficiaries associated with practices and clinicians offering telephone visits only and patients receiving telephone visits only, when both telephone and video were available. 5 key findings →
Participants: 1,593 Evidence: low
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Our study suggests that being a caregiver who is experiencing mental or emotional strain is an independent risk factor for mortality among elderly spousal caregivers.
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From across this tag
10 of the 863 studies in this tag that have a study page, 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.
- Protocol for a meta-review of interventions to prevent and manage ICU delirium
- Palliative care needs of seriously ill, older adults presenting to the emergency department
- The economic cost of delirium: A systematic review and quality assessment
- Early Detection of Palliative Care Needs in Critically Ill Patients Using the NECPAL Tool
- Trends in hospital discharge outcomes among high-risk Medicare beneficiaries before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Delirium and adverse clinical outcomes: a matched cohort study in the UK Biobank
- Assessing differences in care needs and service utilization in geriatric palliative care patients
- Five things physicians and patients should question in hospice and palliative medicine
- Evaluation and management of the elderly patient presenting with cognitive complaints
- Delirium in patients with cancer: assessment, impact, mechanisms and management
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 30,580 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 30,580 records, built mostly from automated pulls of Europe PMC (64.7% of the library) and OpenAlex (16.6%), 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.
1,037 records (3.4% of the library) are not peer-reviewed — 964 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 →
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