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  1. Elder Caregiving in Southeast Asia: A Systematic Review of Cultural Norms, Care Burdens, Carer Support and Policy Gaps 2026-10-29
  2. Beyond “Denial”: Understanding and Responding to Help-Refusal in Dementia 2026-10-26
  3. Caregiving experiences of older-adult informal family caregivers for older adults with comorbid dementia and physical disability: A qualitative study using the caregiving stress-process model 2026-10-14

Studies

195 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1982 to 2026

Top journals

  • The Gerontologist 15
  • Research Square 14
  • International journal of geriatric psychiatry 9
  • Aging & mental health 8
  • Dementia (London, England) 6

105 journals in all.

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  1. Patient and caregiver outcomes at the integrated memory care clinic

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.) 2020-06-05 Health systems and care delivery

    The purpose of this longitudinal cohort study was to explore the outcomes of persons living with dementia (PLWD) and their caregivers during their first 9 months at the Integrated Memory Care Clinic (IMCC).

  2. Attitudes and Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment or Early Stages of Dementia and Their Caregivers: Cross-Sectional Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Journal of medical Internet research 2020-06-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    However, there are barriers to their use associated with sociodemographic factors and negative attitudes, as well as inadequate knowledge about technologies.

  3. Telehealth Home Support During COVID-19 Confinement for Community-Dwelling Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment or Mild Dementia: Survey Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2020-05-12 Risk factors

    Of the respondents, 60/93 (65%) were women.

  4. Association Between Family Caregiver Burden and Affiliate Stigma in the Families of People with Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. International journal of environmental research and public health 2020-04-17 Caregiving

    Family caregivers of people with dementia (PWD) have a heavy care burden.

  5. Loneliness Increases the Risk of All-Cause Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 2020-04-16 Risk factors

    During the follow-up, 428 developed dementia; 221 had AD, 157 had VaD, and 50 had dementia of other subtypes.

  6. A meta-analysis of the association between caregiver burden and the dependent's illness

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Journal of women & aging 2019-12-09 Caregiving

    The caregiver burden is frequently used to refer to the physical and psychological problems that may arise from caring for a dependent relative.

  7. Patient and caregiver characteristics associated with caregiver burden in Parkinson's disease: a palliative care approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. Annals of palliative medicine 2019-11-14 End-of-life care

    Patient and caregiver factors contribute to caregiver burden in persons living with PD.

  8. Exploring Disasters through the Eyes of Residential Nursing Home Caregivers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Social work in public health 2019-06-28 Health systems and care delivery

    Using qualitative interviews, this research explores the experiences of residential nursing home caregivers in Fukushima, who provided support to elderly sufferers of Alzheimer's or other related forms of dementia during the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.

  9. Using Technology to Facilitate Fidelity Assessments: The Tele-STAR Caregiver Intervention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of medical Internet research 2019-05-24 Caregiving

    Tele-STAR reduced caregiver burden and retained good program and treatment fidelity to STAR-C. We found Tele-STAR reduced caregiver burden and had good fidelity to the original protocol.

  10. Determinants of self- and carer-rated quality of life and caregiver burden in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2019-05-08 Caregiving

    There was a strong correlation between carer- and self-rated QoL, with patients consistently rating their QoL higher than caregivers.

  11. How Is End-of-Life Care With and Without Dementia Associated With Informal Caregivers' Outcomes?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The American journal of hospice & palliative care 2019-04-14 Caregiving

    Dementia care, both at EOL and not at EOL, was associated with the most caregiver burden relative to regular care.

  12. Effectiveness of Implementing a Collaborative Chronic Care Model for Clinician Teams on Patient Outcomes and Health Status in Mental Health: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 85 out of 100. JAMA network open 2019-03-01 Digital health tools

    Implementation facilitation that engages clinicians under typical practice conditions can enhance evidence-based team processes; its effect on self-reported overall population health status was negligible, although health status improved for individuals with complex conditions and hospitalization rate declined.

  13. Social networks and loneliness in people with Alzheimer's dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2019-02-28 Risk factors

    The friendship subset of social networks was significantly related to cognition (independent of age, gender, depression, loneliness, and family subset of social network): B = 0.284, P = 0.01.

  14. Risk of caregiver burden in patients with three types of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2019-01 Caregiving

    Liu et al. (2017) investigated caregiver burden of patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), which was compared with caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's disease.

  15. Who's Your Family?: African American Caregivers of Older Adults With Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Research in gerontological nursing 2019-01-01 Disparities

    The nature and outcome of family caregiving is different for various racial and ethnic groups.

  16. Do Caregiver Characteristics Affect Caregiver Burden Differently in Different Countries?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias 2018-12-30 Caregiving

    The relationships between caregiver burden as measured with the Burden Scale for Family Caregivers-short form and 6 characteristics of caregivers caring for patients with dementia were investigated for caregivers from England (n = 36), Finland (n = 42), and Greece (n = 46) using survey data.

  17. Mediators of burden and depression in dementia family caregivers: Kinship differences

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Dementia (London, England) 2018-12-20 Caregiving

    Perceived burden was directly and significantly related to depression for both spouse caregivers and adult child caregivers.

  18. Research on caregiver stress: time for integration and application

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2018-08 Caregiving

    Over the past two decades, caregiver stress has been the subject of scientific inquiry by investigators around the world representing a variety of disciplines.

  19. Involvement of Hospitalized Persons With Dementia in Everyday Decisions: A Dyadic Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The Gerontologist 2018-07-13 Caregiving

    Both members of the dyad rated the PWD, on average, as being "somewhat involved".

  20. Self-Compassion, Coping Strategies, and Caregiver Burden in Caregivers of People with Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Clinical gerontologist 2018-05-03 Caregiving

    Self-compassion was found to be negatively related to caregiver burden and dysfunctional coping strategies and positively related to emotion-focused coping strategies.

  21. Chronic Stress, Social Isolation, and Perceived Loneliness in Dementia Caregivers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of psychosocial nursing and mental health services 2018-04-19 Risk factors

    Caregivers of individuals with dementia are at risk for chronic stress and social isolation.

  22. mHealth applications as an educational and supportive resource for family carers of people with dementia: An integrative review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Dementia 2018-04-09 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Family carers encounter several challenges related to caring for people with dementia, and they need support in managing care recipients’ health needs.

  23. Falls and Hospitalizations Among Persons With Dementia and Associated Caregiver Emotional Difficulties

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The Gerontologist 2018-03-19 Caregiving

    Over 20% of caregivers reported high levels of care-related emotional difficulty.

  24. Process Evaluation of the NYU Caregiver Intervention-Adult Child

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. The Gerontologist 2018-03-19 Caregiving

    Adult children receiving the NYUCI-AC completed a mean of 5.19 individual and family counseling sessions; it took on average a little over 11 months to do so.

  25. Dyadic construction of dementia: meta-ethnography and behaviour-process synthesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Aging & mental health 2018-03-15 Caregiving

    Seventeen studies were included in the review.

  26. Meeting the Informational, Educational, and Psychosocial Support Needs of Persons Living With Dementia and Their Family Caregivers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. The Gerontologist 2018-01-01 End-of-life care

    These programs can help ensure that person- and family-centered care is maintained from time of first symptoms through end-of-life.

  27. Social Frailty Is Associated with Physical Functioning, Cognition, and Depression, and Predicts Mortality

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. The journal of nutrition, health & aging 2018-01-01 Prevention trials

    Social frailty is associated with physical functioning, cognition, and depression, and predicts mortality.

  28. Underreporting of Gender and Race/Ethnicity Differences in NIH-Funded Dementia Caregiver Support Interventions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias 2017-12-27 Caregiving

    Women and racial/ethnic minority dementia caregivers have unique caregiving experiences and support needs.

  29. Racial Differences in Caregiving: Variation by Relationship Type and Dementia Care Status

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of aging and health 2017-11-23 Disparities

    After covariate adjustment, there were few significant racial differences in caregiving strain, health, and service use.

  30. Burden among Family Caregivers of Dementia in the Oldest-Old: An Exploratory Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Frontiers in medicine 2017-11-22 Caregiving

    Oldest-old care recipients were more impaired in cognitive function and instrumental ADL; there was no difference in behavior and basic ADL.

  31. Neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer's disease: associations with caregiver burden and treatment outcomes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. QJM : monthly journal of the Association of Physicians 2017-09-01 Caregiving

    The mean follow-up interval was 25.0 ± 12.2 months, and two patients died during follow-up.

  32. Caregiver burden is increased in Parkinson's disease with mild cognitive impairment (PD-MCI)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Translational neurodegeneration 2017-06-19 Caregiving

    Mean Zarit Burden Interview (ZBI) score increased significantly between carers of PD-N (M = 13.39, SD = 12.22) compared to those of PD-MCI patients (M = 22.00, SD = 10.8), and between carers of PD-MCI and PDD patients (M = 29.33, SD = 9.59).

  33. Dementia in Women

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. The Psychiatric clinics of North America 2017-03-06 Caregiving

    Despite the progress made in the understanding of the etiology, neuropathophysiology, and treatment of different types of dementia, such disorders continue to pose huge health problems worldwide.

  34. Narrative collisions, sociocultural pressures and dementia: the relational basis of personhood reconsidered

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Sociology of health & illness 2017-02 Caregiving

    The concept of personhood developed by Tom Kitwood highlights that the experience of dementia has relational dimensions that transcend the neurodegenerative impacts of the condition.

  35. The Potential Public Health Relevance of Social Isolation and Loneliness: Prevalence, Epidemiology, and Risk Factors

    ⚠ Report — not peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Public Policy & Aging Report 2017-01-01 Risk factors

    News headlines from many nations, including the United States, Germany, Australia, and the United Kingdom, suggest that we are facing a loneliness epidemic (http://www.campaigntoendloneliness.org/loneliness-research, http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/germany-faces-epidemic-of-lonely-and-isolated-seniors-a-876635.html, https://startsat60.com/health/new-survey-reveals-australias-loneliness-epidemic, http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/tania-de-jong/loneliness-is-the-global-epidemic-of-our-times), leading to the important question of whether there is evidence to support such a claim and, if so, whether we are facing a public health crisis.

  36. Patient and Caregiver Interplay in Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia: Family Caregiver's Experience

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Clinical nursing research 2016-11-17 Caregiving

    The purpose of this study was to identify family caregivers' experiences in managing the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) with particular focus on their interpersonal interactions with patient with dementia.

  37. Family caregiver support groups: spiritual reflections' impact on stress management

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Aging & mental health 2016-09-20 Caregiving

    Content analysis of the video-recorded group interactions yielded recurrent themes of caregivers' spiritual reflections and their associations with managing caregiver stress responses.

  38. Conceptualization of an evidence-based smartphone innovation for caregivers and persons living with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine 2016-09-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Recent statistics released by Alzheimer's Disease International has highlighted how prevalent dementia will become in the next couple of years.

  39. Home-based caregiver training: Benefits differ by care receivers' dementia diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.) 2016-06-10 Caregiving

    Patients with dementia differ in their behavioral and psychological symptoms according to their diagnosis with Alzheimer's disease (AD) or vascular dementia (VaD), requiring different symptom-management strategies.

  40. The care needs and experiences with the use of services of people with young-onset dementia and their caregivers: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2016-06-06 Costs and economics

    The literature indicates that people with YOD and their caregivers face a wide range of difficulties during the disease process.

  41. Factors Associated with Unmet Needs among African-American Dementia Care Providers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of gerontology & geriatric research 2016-01-22 Disparities

    Racial and ethnic minorities currently comprise 20% of the U.S. population; in 2050, this figure is expected to rise to 42%.

  42. Hallucinations, loneliness, and social isolation in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Cognitive neuropsychiatry 2016-01-06 Risk factors

    More hallucinatory experiences, social isolation, and loneliness were found in the AD group than in the healthy control group.

  43. Do determinants of burden and emotional distress in dementia caregivers change over time?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Aging & mental health 2015-11-20 Caregiving

    General burden is shown to be determined by severity of patient's neuropsychiatric symptoms, caregiver's sense of competence, health-related quality of life.

  44. Family caregivers of patients with frontotemporal dementia: An integrative review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. International journal of nursing studies 2015-10-31 Caregiving

    Family caregivers of patients with frontotemporal dementia identify behavioral disturbances as most troubling.

  45. The Disproportionate Impact Of Dementia On Family And Unpaid Caregiving To Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Health affairs (Project Hope) 2015-10-01 Health systems and care delivery

    The number of US adults ages sixty-five and older who are living with dementia is substantial and expected to grow, raising concerns about the demands that will be placed on family members and other unpaid caregivers.

  46. Multidimensional determinants of family caregiver burden in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2015-04-08 Caregiving

    The study results identified that dementia-related factors were the most significant factors, representing 25.6% of caregiver burden and were followed by caregiving-related factors explaining caregiver burden significantly.

  47. Family Caregiver's Perception of Alzheimer's disease and caregiving in Chinese culture

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Social work in public health 2015-01-20 Caregiving

    This study examined the perception of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and caregiving among family caregivers of individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and AD in China.

  48. The positive aspects of caregiving in dementia: A critical review of the qualitative literature

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Dementia (London, England) 2014-12-29 Caregiving

    Positive aspects of caregiving in dementia have been identified as important in understanding the experiences of carers, yet the research base lacks clear definitions of key concepts.

  49. The Thoughts Questionnaire (TQ) for family caregivers of people with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Dementia (London, England) 2014-10-02 Caregiving

    The level of agreement with dysfunctional thought statements from the Dementia Thoughts Caregivers Questionnaire and Thoughts Questionnaire was low.

  50. Two hundred and sixty participants were randomised (173 intervention, 87 TAU).

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