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Research

31,380 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.

Find studies

Showing 801–817 of 817 studies in Caregiving marked Peer-reviewed (page 33 of 33) · 31,380 in the whole library · How the 0–100 score works

Download bibliography of the first 500 of these studies, in this order: BibTeX (.bib) · RIS (.ris)

Browse by subject, author or institution

Each number is how many studies that link shows, with your other filters kept.

Other subjects

Authors

Names as each record prints them; the same person can appear under two spellings.

Institutions

From OpenAlex; 16,851 studies have no institution on record and are not counted here.

What “Caregiving” covers

Caregiving — Research on the people doing the caring: their health, their workload, and what support actually helps.

A note on reading research. One study is rarely the final word.

We try to note the size of a study, whether it was in humans or animals, and how early-stage the finding is. If a summary here doesn't make that clear, treat it with extra caution and check the original source.

Barriers to Accessing Care and Support Services for Older Immigrants and Immigrants with Dementia in Finland: Perspectives of Professional Social and Health Care Providers

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 2025-03-01

Older people's immigration to a different country can place them in a vulnerable situation. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source Free full text

Views of Family Caregivers on Advance Care Planning in Advanced Dementia Care in Hong Kong: A Qualitative Thematic Content Analysis Study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Health Science Reports 2025-07-01

Emerging themes include (1) receptive to ACP, (2) mixed emotions, (3) barriers to ACP, (4) family consensus in decision-making, and (5) benefits of ACP. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source Free full text

Impact of assistive technologies on caregiver burden and perseverance for people with dementia at home

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Health Policy and Technology 2025-11-20

• AT use was limited and AT type used varied by caregiver living arrangement. • Most used ATs: daily living support and risk prevention; risk response least used. • Daily living support ATs linked to fewer care hours. • Risk prevention ATs tied to longer PT, higher CarerQol-7D, and lower SRB scores. • Daily support and risk response ATs most likely to extend PT by over six months. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source Free full text

Effect of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Activities on Family Caregiver Burden in Patients With Dementia—A Pilot Study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Home Healthcare Now 2026-03-01

Progressive functional decline and behavioral disturbances in people with dementia place sustained emotional and practical demands on family caregivers, often resulting in chronic stress, anxiety, depression, and a high perceived caregiving burden. 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source Full text may need a subscription

Addressing Caregivers’ Needs beyond Respite: Enhancing Social Connections and Letting Them Know They Matter

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement 2025-07-30

Respite for individuals caring for family living with dementia is a common way to take personal time away from caregiving. 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source Free full text

Caring While Moving: Case Studies on Physical Activity and Dementia Caregiver Well-Being

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Healthcare 2025-09-03

While both caregivers participated in physical activity, their case studies reveal opportunities to optimize physical activity interventions to support members of the caregiving dyad: (1) targeting mitochondrial fitness—the ability of mitochondria to maintain energy homeostasis with aging—so participants can mitigate the onset of NCDs, fatigue, and overall health outcomes; (2) promoting the self-care and psychological benefits of physical activity such as improved mood and social connectedness; and (3) improving the accurate perceptions of participants’ health and physical activity with specific measurable markers of physical activity. 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source Free full text

The dorsal raphe nucleus shows phospho-tau neurofibrillary changes before the transentorhinal region in Alzheimer's disease. A precocious onset?

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Neuropathology and applied neurobiology 2009-08-01

These observations: (i) support the hypothesis of transneuronal spread of neurofibrillary changes from the DR to its interconnected cortical brain areas; and (ii) indicate that the supratrochlear subnucleus of the DR is affected by neurofibrillary changes before the transentorhinal cortex during the disease process underlying AD. 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

Challenges and needs in dementia care: people with dementia and family caregivers’ experiences from diagnosis to follow-up in Swedish primary care: a qualitative study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 2025-07-12

This study explores how older people with dementia and their family caregivers experience the process from diagnosis to follow-up in primary care, what support is needed, what works well and what could be improved. 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source Free full text

Caring for loved ones as community: Supporting caregivers of Native Hawaiians living with dementia

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. SSM - Mental Health 2025-06-24

Caregiving interventions can reduce caregiver burden and promote caregiver competence, yet caregiving is rooted in culture, with differing impacts of the caregiving role. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source Free full text

Dementia in primary care: a qualitative study with general practitioners and caregivers with and without migration backgrounds

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. BMC Family Practice 2025-09-16

The analysis revealed six main themes: 'Core health care challenges,' 'communication approaches and information sharing,' 'role of GP,' 'situation of caregivers,' 'influence on caregiver-GP relationship,' and 'socio-cultural barriers and care preferences'. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source Free full text

Caregiver Identity and Resilience Across and Beyond Dementia Care: A Qualitative Study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 29 out of 100. Innovation in Aging 2025-12-01

With increasing dementia prevalence and reliance on spousal care partners, understanding how caregiving identity evolves and how resilience is fostered across the care trajectory is crucial. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source Free full text

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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
  • Randomized / 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
  • Multicenter 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 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.

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 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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