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1,013 studies tagged care, dated 1986-10-01 to 2026-09-17 (1 undated). Bibliography: BibTeX (.bib) · RIS (.ris)
Newest in this topic
- Is there a role for artificial intelligence in end-of-life care for persons with dementia? Perspectives of and recommendations by caregivers and hospice staff 2026-09-17
- Online Peer Support Use Among Informal Caregivers of People Living With Alzheimer Disease or Related Dementias: National Cross-Sectional Web-Based Survey 2026-09-07
- Interconnected Challenges in Dementia Caregiving: A Co-occurrence Network Analysis of Burden, Unmet Needs, and System Failures Among Caregivers 2026-08-17
Studies
1,013 studies carry this tag; 1,012 of them have a date.
Date range
1986 to 2026
Top journals
- Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 63
- The Gerontologist 48
- Alzheimer s & Dementia 28
- International psychogeriatrics 28
- Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 26
339 journals in all.
Newest first, then by address. Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0); tap a score to see what makes it up. Tags were assigned automatically from each study's title and summary. The same studies as a filter in the library.
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The following strategies helped with implementation of decisions: introducing change slowly; organising legal changes for the carer as well as the patient; involving a professional to persuade the patient to accept services; and emphasising that services optimised, not impeded, independence.
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The number of people with dementia will rise dramatically over the next 20 years.
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36/100
Over the years 2005-2006, many ECPs took care of patients with dementia and an ADE, actual life termination of these patients took place very rarely and never in incompetent patients.
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At 16 weeks, 67.5% of intervention caregivers reported improvement in targeted problem behavior, compared with 45.8% of caregivers in a no-treatment control group (P=.002), and reduced upset with (P=.03) and enhanced confidence managing (P=.01) the behavior.
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Caring for people with dementia in primary care demands the same systematic approach as the management of other long-term conditions.
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Recent years have seen a growing recognition that dementia is a terminal illness and that patients with advanced dementia nearing the end of life do not currently receive adequate palliative care.
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Despite evidence of ethnic differences in family caregivers' experiences, the extent to which caregiver interventions are culturally tailored to address these differences is unknown.
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Overall time and the times for ADL care and supervision can be considered valid estimates.
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Questionably beneficial medications are common in advanced dementia, even as death approaches.
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Overall burden was greater among adult-child caregivers, especially those who lived with the patient and who had other family duties.
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Research on end-of-life care for people with dementia has yet to develop interventions that address the particular challenges that dying with dementia poses.
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The aging of the European population will lead to a rapid increase in dementia cases in the coming decades, posing challenges for the organization and provision of end-of-life care.
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Caregiver characteristics rather than objective care needs of the patients tend to be responsible for the onset of depression.
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51/100
This study illustrates the need to identify these individuals and to make provisions among social service agencies to monitor their well-being regularly and provide a higher level of support when needs are identified.
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In this article we aim to present these recommendations and to invite professionals to consider these important issues and to contribute towards a broader discussion.
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The costs of illness can be huge; medical bankruptcy is a significant problem in the United States [9].
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Death with dementia is increasingly common.
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A structured, multicomponent skills training intervention that targeted CG self-care behaviors as one of five target areas, improved self-reported health status, and decreased burden and bother in racially and ethnically diverse CGs of people with dementia.
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Individuals with dementia may be receiving different end-of-life care from those without.
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The U.S. Medicare hospice benefit has expanded considerably into the nursing home (NH) setting in recent years.
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This study showed a large number of unmet needs in dementia.
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Despite much data, we lack a unifying guideline for dementia prognostication.
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79/100
Older people who view a video depiction of a patient with advanced dementia after hearing a verbal description of the condition are more likely to opt for comfort as their goal of care compared with those who solely listen to a verbal description.
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HCPs of NH patients with advanced dementia can most commonly expect to encounter medical decisions relating to feeding problems, infections, and pain.
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15 care sites with 289 residents were randomly assigned.
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Currently 4 million Americans suffer from dementia.
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Most surrogates reported that patients had previously completed an advance directive (59%), discussed preferences for EOL care (56%), or done both (38%).
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Future research should examine both current and pre-caregiving relationship quality.
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Prototypes for two devices (armband and electronic notepad) were developed.
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Qualitative methodology based on action research identified challenges when caring for persons with advanced dementia, as perceived by key professional providers.
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Most feeding tubes are inserted in an acute care hospital.
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Dementia patients frequently die after a pneumonia or prolonged intake problems.
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Family caregivers of people with dementia, often called the invisible second patients, are critical to the quality of life of the care recipients.
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However, recent data suggest that the risk of adverse effects may offset the benefits of atypical agents in patients with dementia.
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Although not significant, results as to the effectiveness of such an intervention to improve family satisfaction with end-of-life care are encouraging.
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We noted no differences between decedents with and without dementia in terms of pain, psychosocial status, family involvement, advance care planning, most life-prolonging interventions, and hospice use.
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The COACH system shows promise as a tool to help support older adults with moderate-levels of dementia and their caregivers.
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48/100
The Brief COPE is a self-completed questionnaire measuring coping strategies.
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These results confirm previous correlational research on caregiver burden.
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Previous studies have suggested that 4 latent constructs (depressed affect, well-being, interpersonal problems, somatic symptoms) underlie the item responses on the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) Scale.
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Dementia caregiving has been associated with negative effects on caregiver health and early nursing home placement for dementia patients.
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For advance directives to better reflect a person's wishes, discussions with individuals and families about advance directives should include a range of care issues in the settings of terminal illness, persistent vegetative state or end-stage illness.
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This will be vital in moving to a phase III trial that is pragmatic and feasible for these complex patients within the NHS.
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Home based support for caregivers of persons with dementia, which emphasizes the use of locally available, low-cost human resources, is feasible, acceptable and leads to significant improvements in caregiver mental health and burden of caring.
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A comprehensive search of relevant databases, hand searching and cross referencing found 685 articles that were assessed for relevance to the review.
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Based on these preliminary findings, consensus criteria for prescribing in advanced dementia are needed to decrease polypharmacy and reduce the use of medications that are of minimal benefit or high risk.
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This review reinforces the importance of providing appropriate palliative care to individuals suffering from end-stage dementia and identifies some of the barriers to extending such specialist palliative care provision.
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Serious events, as indicated by a hospital admission or death, are frequent following the short-term use of antipsychotic drugs in older adults with dementia.
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The comparative analysis provided a systematic review of cancer caregiving in the context of three other types of caregiving.
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The aim of the present study was to clarify the processes of decision making and end-of-life care for patients with dementia in the group homes in Japan.
From across this tag
9 of the 1,002 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.
- A comparison of caregivers for elderly stroke and dementia victims
- Enhancing dementia care: a primary care-based memory clinic
- Time to nursing home admission and death in people with dementia: systematic review and meta-analysis
- Continuity of primary care and end-of-life care costs in dementia: a retrospective cohort study
- An Overview of Reviews on Telemedicine and Telehealth in Dementia Care: Mixed Methods Synthesis
- Engaging life in two Irish nursing home units for people with dementia: Quantitative comparisons before and after implementing household environments
- Medicare Plan Switching Among Assisted Living Residents: The Role of Memory Care
- A qualitative study: professionals' experiences of advance care planning in dementia and palliative care, 'a good idea in theory but ...'
- Occurrence of advance care planning for persons with dementia, cancer and other chronic-progressive diseases in general practice: longitudinal analysis of data from health records linked with administrative data