The prevalence of dementia increases with age. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Research
28,580 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
41/100
People living with dementia (PLWD) have voiced a desire to remain in their home environment as long as possible; unfortunately, there is limited integrated person-and family-centered community support. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Montessori-based interventions (MBIs) were developed to promote guided participation in meaningful activities by people with dementia patients. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Less than half of administrators found it feasible to close indoor common areas, all community types reported a challenge organizing group activities for safe distancing, and more than half of residents with dementia did not wear a face covering or maintain physical distance from other residents when indicated. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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41/100
Few studies examine care as a relational process in long-term care, and still fewer describe the participation of residents with dementia. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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There were statistically significant improvements in resident well-being (Δ = 0.44, p = 0.029), Positive Engagement Potential (Δ = 0.17, p = 0.002), and Occupational Diversity (Δ = 0.12, p = 0.014) in 2016. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The 9 participants described the importance of understanding the experiences of PLWDs in order to provide high-quality dementia care and to deliver such care with the residents and their preferences as the focus. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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We identified the centrality of "being out in the world and negotiating connections," which characterizes residents' experiences with the outside world as a process of "working out" engagement with nature, others, and the community. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Dementia education for healthcare providers has gained growing attention in China. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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41/100
We conducted a participatory research project to address this important area of care. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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About 40 000 individuals depend on assisted living in long-term care facilities in Norway. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Assisted living provides housing and long-term care services to more than 811,000 older adults in the United States daily and is regulated by the states. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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In total, 17 papers were included in the final review. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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We found the fundamental purpose of occupation is to support the person living with dementia to feel they are living a meaningful and fulfilling life. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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We had 38,777 and 40,277 hits for depression and dementia, respectively, in long-term care facilities or nursing homes. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Dementia-friendly designs are important in residential care homes but an aspect that remains neglected is the potential role of door designs in promoting wayfinding. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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The purpose of this study was to use routinely collected resident assessment data from a single site to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on cognition, physical function and behavioral symptoms of residents with dementia. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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41/100
It is estimated that 5.4 million Americans have some form of dementia and these numbers are expected to rise in the coming decades, leading to an unprecedented demand for memory care housing and services. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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High management support aligned with implementation effectiveness within NHs. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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This study is one the first to account of attribute development for a DCE examining the public preferences for autonomy enhancing dementia care in Ireland. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The project Aging in Place applies a novel approach to investigate how social care services in Sweden are adapted to preferences and needs of older persons living at home with dementia (including their partners). 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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A persistent gap remains between policy ambitions and everyday practice. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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This intervention represents the output of the iterative development of a complex intervention to fulfil an unmet need for PwD and sensory loss. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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In regards to policy-making decisions and resource allocation, the success of making technology more accessible to the marginalized older population should not be measured solely on the outcome of avoiding acute care services; its benefits should rather be assessed with functional health as the focus of intervention, including measures of psychophysical well-being and life satisfaction.9 Higher-end immersive technologies could be installed as a private expense in a patient's room; they could also be made available in common recreational areas within a leisure and/or fitness room, provided by the LTC facility through support of government subsidies and incentives aimed at promoting health of its aging population. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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These data confirm earlier reports of a substantial number of treatable eye diseases, particularly advanced cataract, in nursing home residents, and indicate a need for increased surveillance of these communities. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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From across this tag
9 of the 199 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 9. The same 9 appear here every time.
- What is the current state of care for older people with dementia in general hospitals? A literature review
- Depression and Functional Mobility Decline in Long Term Care Home Residents with Dementia: a Prospective Cohort Study
- MDS Cognitive Performance Scale
- Engagement and social interaction in dementia care settings. A call for occupational and social justice
- Long-Term Care Service Trajectories and Their Predictors for Persons Living With Dementia: Results From a Canadian Study
- The Nuts and Bolts of Utilizing Telemedicine in Nursing Homes - The GeriCare@North Experience
- Costs of a Staff Communication Intervention to Reduce Dementia Behaviors in Nursing Home Care
- Infection management and multidrug-resistant organisms in nursing home residents with advanced dementia
- The cost of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) in community dwelling Alzheimer's disease patients
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 28,580 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 28,580 records, built mostly from automated pulls of Europe PMC (62.2% of the library) and OpenAlex (17.8%), 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 (3.6% 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 →