Eighty participants completed round one of the Delphi survey and 55 (68.75%) also completed round two. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Research
27,780 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
Further research is needed to elucidate factors underlying differences in SFU and BI prescribing patterns. 5 key findings →
Participants: 45,734 Evidence: low
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The three modifications had comparable performance when the number of deaths was large relative to the denominator and the age distribution was as in the standard population. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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American Indian governments located in a region west of the Cascade mountain range and the government of the state of Washington offer programs to serve the needs of a growing American Indian elder and disabled population through the services of individuals caring for family members and also individuals employed to provide care. 1 key finding →
Participants: 1,601 Evidence: low
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The effect of austerity and associated budgets are strong contenders,3Ruckert A Labonté R Health inequities in the age of austerity: the need for social protection policies. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Medicaid-funded long-term services and supports (LTSS) are foundational in helping older dual-enrollees with disabilities remain in the community. 2 key findings →
Participants: 462 Evidence: low
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The study sample was NHATS respondents who needed assistance with activities of daily living (ADL) or instrumental activities of daily living (IADL), and who did not live with a spouse (N = 512). 3 key findings →
Participants: 512 Evidence: low
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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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36/100
The findings revealed that Japanese physicians did not display support for euthanasia (2%) and assisted suicide (1%); however, the general public supported euthanasia (33%) and assisted suicide (34%). 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Of the 74 patients examined, 19 (25.7%) experienced delirium, while 55 (74.3%) showed no symptoms of delirium. 5 key findings →
Participants: 74 Evidence: low
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The two methods demonstrated a growing need for palliative care in the observed and projected period. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Catatonia is a severe and potentially life-threatening but often reversible neuropsychiatric syndrome. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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In the continuously aging society, private sectors are expected to play a role in older adult care. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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This study aimed to evaluate the impact of the policy to reduce the reimbursement fee for percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) on the number of PEG procedures performed among older adults with dementia. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Marginal utility of financial resources when needing long-term care, and the related incentives for precautionary savings and insurance, may vary significantly by whether one receives care at home or in a nursing home. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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36/100
One was associated with moderate to marked cerebral amyloid deposition ("pathological aging"), while the other had either minimal or no amyloid deposition ("normal aging"). 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Maintaining a healthy brain is a critical factor for the quality of life of elderly individuals and the preservation of their independence. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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36/100
Pneumonia is a major medical problem in the very old. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Nutritional intake is often compromised in elderly, multimorbid patients. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Hip fracture has long been considered a major threat to survival in aged populations. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Current research indicates that neurocognitive sequelae following critical illness are common, may be permanent, and are associated with impairments in daily function, decreased quality of life, and an inability to return to work. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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36/100
Delirium is a mental disorder characterized by disturbances in consciousness, orientation, memory, thought, perception, and behavior, of acute onset and fluctuating course. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Patients with delirium, dementia, depression, and schizophrenia were administered a newly developed test designed to identify delirium in an intensive care unit (ICU) setting. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The expert panel reached consensus on 78% of options rated on the 9-point scale. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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36/100
The risk of comorbid conditions increases with age and may result in underdiagnosis: in older patients, new symptoms may not be clearly recognized by the patient and may be dismissed by practitioners as manifestations of preexisting conditions. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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From across this tag
10 of the 862 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 10. The same 10 appear here every time.
- Symptom burden, palliative care need and predictors of physical and psychological discomfort in two UK hospitals
- Agitation in Demented Patients in an Acute Care Hospital: Prevalence, Disruptiveness, and Staff Burden
- Geriatric Telepsychiatry: Systematic Review and Policy Considerations
- Palliative care to support the needs of adults with neurological disease
- Growth of Fee-for-Service Medicare Home-Based Medical Care Within Private Residences and Domiciliary Care Settings in the U.S., 2012-2019
- Benzodiazepine and opioid use and the duration of intensive care unit delirium in an older population
- Secondary causes among adult patients presenting with first-episode psychosis to acute medical settings in Hong Kong: A 10-Year retrospective study
- PRagmatic trial Of Video Education in Nursing homes: The design and rationale for a pragmatic cluster randomized trial in the nursing home setting
- Consequences of physical inactivity in older adults: A systematic review of reviews and meta-analyses
- Palliative care needs of seriously ill, older adults presenting to the emergency department
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 27,780 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 27,780 records, built mostly from automated pulls of Europe PMC (61.1% of the library) and OpenAlex (18.3%), 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 (3.7% 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 →