Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0). Tap a score to see what makes it up.
Highest usefulness score first. Studies without a score come last.
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For women who initiate HT more than 10 or 20 years from menopause onset or are aged 60 years or older, the benefit-risk ratio appears less favorable because of the greater absolute risks of coronary heart disease, stroke, venous thromboembolism, and dementia.
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Advance care planning before an acute event is only the first step in a process of decision making.
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Good cognitive abilities (CA) enable autonomy, improve social inclusion and act preventively.
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The critical role of the vasculature and its repair in neurological disease states is beginning to emerge particularly for stroke, dementia, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, tumors and others.
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Achieving pain management in practice was highly challenging.
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With increase in life expectancy, the number of persons suffering from common age-related brain diseases, including neurodegenerative (e.g., dementia) and cerebrovascular (e.g., stroke) disease is expected to rise substantially.
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Physical and cognitive frailty are interrelated and synergistic syndromes more frequently seen in old age, which represent intermediate stages between aging successfully and disability.
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Exercise programs involving aerobic and resistance training (i.e., multiple-modality) have shown promise in improving cognition and executive control in older adults at risk, or experiencing, cognitive decline.
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End-of-life care policy in the UK states that all people should identify their needs, priorities and preferences for end-of-life care in the form of advance care planning.
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The number of people in their last years of life with advanced chronic conditions, palliative care needs, and limited life prognosis due to different causes including multi-morbidity, organ failure, frailty, dementia, and cancer is rising.
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Development of measures to preserve cognitive function or even reverse cognitive decline in the ever-growing elderly population is the focus of many research and commercial efforts.
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Despite increasing attention given to dementia by international governments and policy makers, the focus of end of life care has been on the dying trajectory of malignant disease.
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38/100
Surrogate decision-making on behalf of a person living with dementia is often a difficult process.
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Delirium occurring in patients with dementia is referred to as delirium superimposed on dementia (DSD).
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Our findings reveal several different views on what is important about end-of-life care for people with dementia; therefore, a 'one-size-fits-all' approach to care is unlikely to be most appropriate.
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'We DECide' had a positive influence on advance care planning policy.
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We present a comparative split-half resampling analysis of various data driven feature selection and classification methods for the whole brain voxel-based classification analysis of anatomical magnetic resonance images.
Why it matters
This study compared different machine learning feature selection methods for classifying brain MRI scans of people with Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment and normal controls. It is a methods comparison for diagnosis, not a treatment, cure or prevention study.
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Assessing the mental status of patients with a neurobehavioral disorder is a critical element in the diagnosis and treatment of these patients.
Why it matters
This overview describes three major means of assessing mental status: determining dementia severity and its impact on daily activities, brief screening tests like the MMSE and MoCA, and specific neuropsychological tests for cognitive domains. It does not report any findings on treating, curing, or preventing Alzheimer's disease.
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Patients with multiple serious conditions account for a high proportion of health care spending.
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Taiwan's accelerated rate of aging is more than twice that of European countries and United States.
Why it matters
This article describes Taiwan's aging policies, including active aging and aging in place, and notes an increasing number of people with dementia as an emerging issue. It is about policy and social response, not about treating, curing or preventing Alzheimer's disease.
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This paper provides an overview of the evidence on the perspective of health care professionals (HCPs) in relation to advance care planning (ACP) for people with dementia, residing in long-term care settings.
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Inexpensive, non-invasive tools for assessing Alzheimer-type pathophysiologies are needed.
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In cognitively normal older adults, a computerized cognitive battery showed relatively weak associations with brain imaging markers of neurodegeneration, similar to standard neuropsychological tests. This is about comparing cognitive tests, not about treating, curing or preventing Alzheimer's disease.
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Thirty-three per cent of the hospital beds were occupied with ALC patients; 63% had a diagnosis of dementia.
Why it matters
This study found that many hospital beds were occupied by alternate level of care patients, most with a dementia diagnosis, waiting over a year for long-term care beds. It concerns hospital discharge and community care, not treating, curing, or preventing Alzheimer's disease.
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Fluid biomarkers improve the diagnostic accuracy in dementia and provide an objective measure potentially useful as a therapeutic response in clinical trials.
Why it matters
This review and consensus statement discusses how fluid biomarkers can improve dementia diagnosis and serve as measures in clinical trials, while noting no consensus on optimal plasma amyloid-beta measurement. It is about diagnosis and recommendations, so it does not provide a treatment, cure or prevention.
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The results were consistent for both nursing homes and data were aggregated.
Why it matters
This study found that residents in household model units spent more time in communal living spaces and were more likely to be active and engaged than residents in traditional model units. The physical environment change, along with supportive staff procedures and organizational initiatives, improved the well-being of residents with dementia.
From across this topic
10 of the 7,967 studies in this topic, 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.
- Impact of Implantable Hearing Devices on Delirium Risk in Patients with Hearing Loss: A National Database Study
- The presence of a caregiver is associated with patient outcomes in patients with Parkinson's disease and atypical parkinsonisms
- Community Input for Addressing Dementia Health Disparities: Richmond Brain Health Initiative
- Priority issues in women's mental health
- Comparative risk of dementia in diabetic stroke patients prescribed SGLT2 vs. DPP-4 inhibitors: A propensity-matched retrospective cohort study
- Outcomes of mild cognitive impairment by definition: a population study
- Association of body mass index with risk of cognitive impairment and dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies
- What Are Physicians' Reasons for Not Referring People with Life-Limiting Illnesses to Specialist Palliative Care Services? A Nationwide Survey
- The time course of motor and cognitive decline in older adults and their associations with brain pathologies: a multicohort study
- Processes of consent in research for adults with impaired mental capacity nearing the end of life: systematic review and transparent expert consultation (MORECare_Capacity statement)