28,580 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
Both motor and neuropsychiatric symptoms contributed to institutionalization, but the presence of hallucinations was the strongest predictor. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Chronic pain is a common problem among geriatric nursing home residents and is frequently undetected. 2 key findings →
Evidence: moderate
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The prevalence of depressive disorders among nursing home residents is high; depression recognition is relatively low, with only 37%-45% of cases diagnosed by psychiatrists recognized as depressed by staff. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The findings suggest that diseases affect preference-based HRQoL differently in a hospital-based LTC population compared with previous studies in the general population. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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When caring for people with severe Alzheimer's disease (AD), the concept of the person being central is increasingly advocated in clinical practice and academia as an approach to deliver high-quality care. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The authors prospectively explored the consequences of hip fracture with regard to discharge placement, functional status, and mortality using the Survey on Assets and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD). 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Finally, organizational characteristics (e.g., size and proprietary status) appear to be important enabling factors influencing the propensity to provide specialty care in dedicated units. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Engagement in green spaces impacts positively on wellbeing and quality of life. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Post-diagnostic care in young-onset dementia (YoD) varies, from something that is occasionally structured, to improvised, to frequently non-existent depending on geographic region. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Phases 1 and 2 results facilitated targeted changes in BESI, thus improving its overall usability for the final phase of the study, when real-time notifications and interventions will be implemented. 2 key findings →
Design: clinical trial Evidence: low
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Four themes were identified: (a) changing with age, (b) independence and autonomy, (c) bounded identity, and (d) social comparison. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Twenty-four staff members completed the survey and reported positive perspectives about the training, use of the program, and benefits for PWD and themselves. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has been particularly challenging for nursing home staff and residents. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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As the United States population ages, a higher share of adults is likely to use long-term services and supports. 5 key findings →
Design: narrative review Evidence: low
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Despite a formal inpatient or outpatient classification, the residents living in AL facilities showed significantly higher values for well-being and showed significantly less agitated, challenging behavior compared to the nursing home. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Sixteen states license or certify dementia care units within RC/AL settings. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Data were analysed using thematic analysis. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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AimTo explore the experiences and challenges for residential care home staff when managing the healthcare needs of their residents, in particular those living with dementia. 1 key finding →
Design: clinical trial Evidence: low
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Alternative care environments for regular nursing homes are highly warranted to promote health and well-being of residents with dementia that are part of an age-friendly and dementia-friendly city and society. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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A one percentage point reduction in elderspeak costs $6.75 per staff member with average baseline elderspeak usage. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Nine cyclical stages were undertaken to achieve the outcome of an ACP guide and template. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Nonpharmacological practices to address BPSDs include sensory practices (aromatherapy, massage, multi-sensory stimulation, bright light therapy), psychosocial practices (validation therapy, reminiscence therapy, music therapy, pet therapy, meaningful activities), and structured care protocols (bathing, mouth care). 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The new CPS provides a functional view of cognitive performance, using readily available MDS data. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Care home residents are often frail with multiple comorbidities and cognitive impairment, most commonly caused by dementia. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Research on the impact of the built environment in long-term care settings continues to grow. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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7 of the 199 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 7. The same 7 appear here every time.
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
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 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.
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 →