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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Instruments that assess quality when dying differ in several ways and most do not measure a single construct, which is relevant to guiding and evaluating care.
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Normal brain function is facilitated by a highly organized and interconnected structure allowing complex integration of sensory information and motor responses.
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Design qualitative exploration of views from care home staff and the family of residents in care homes for older people.
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Delirium is a complex neuropsychiatric syndrome with generalized cognitive impairment and disproportionate inattention.
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The goals of palliative care address critical issues for individuals with complex and serious illness residing in nursing homes, including pain and symptom management, communication, preparation for death, decisions about treatment preferences, and caregiver support.
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Dementia and hip fractures are 2 conditions that are seen primarily in older adults, and both are associated with substantial morbidity and mortality.
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This pilot study examined whether an interactive, computer based decision aid can help patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) engage in effective advance care planning.
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Regular physical activity undoubtedly has many health benefits for all age groups.
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Delirium affects 60 to 80% of ventilated patients and is associated with worse clinical outcomes including death.
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The blood-brain barrier (BBB) represents the interface between the brain and other body tissues.
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Each vignette promoted discussion of differences of perspectives about the ways to enhance the dignity of people with dementia in hospital, care home and community settings.
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Because children are becoming overweight, unhealthy, and unfit, understanding the neurocognitive benefits of an active lifestyle in childhood has important public health and educational implications.
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The concept of cognitive insight was introduced in 2004 to describe the capacity of patients with psychosis to distance themselves from their psychotic experiences, reflect on them, and respond to corrective feedback.
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Synaptic transmission is essential for nervous system function, and its dysfunction is a known major contributing factor to Alzheimer's-type dementia.
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The number of people with dementia will rise dramatically over the next 20 years.
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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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With the upcoming reform of the healthcare system and the greater emphasis on care in the home and other living environments, geriatric providers will need alternate ways of monitoring disease, activity, response to therapy, and patient safety.
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Delirium and dementia share similarities in clinical and pathogenic features, leading to the speculation that instead of being distinct clinical entities, the two age-related conditions may be linked by a common pathogenic mechanism.
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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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Most decline occurred prior to hospitalization and was associated with common indicators of poor outcomes in hospitalized elders.
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As the population ages, risks for cognitive decline threaten independence and quality of life for older adults and present challenges to the health care system.
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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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Compared with individuals at low familial risk of the development of depression, high-risk individuals have reduced hippocampal volume, indicating that neuroanatomic anomalies associated with depression may precede the onset of a depressive episode and influence the development and course of this disorder.
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The risk for dementia, a major contributor to incapacitation and institutionalization, rises rapidly as we age, doubling every 5 y after age 65.
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CT offers promise as a preventive therapeutic technique in healthy older adults and particularly as a secondary prevention method for "at risk" groups.
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.
- Three Trends Shaping the Politics of Aging in America
- Computerized Cognitive Training in Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment or Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
- A nomogram for predicting post-stroke cognitive impairment no dementia in patients with first-ever mild ischemic stroke
- Ginkgo biloba for cognitive impairment and dementia
- Prevalence of dementia among community-dwelling older adults in rural Uganda: findings from DEPEND Uganda (Dementia Epidemiology, unmet need and co-developing solutions in Uganda)
- Hypersynchronization in mild cognitive impairment: the 'X' model
- Medicare Advantage enrollment and outcomes of post-acute nursing home care among patients with dementia
- Female advantage in verbal memory: Evidence of sex-specific cognitive reserve
- Physical and cognitive domains of the Instrumental Activities of Daily Living: validation in a multiethnic population of Asian older adults
- Factors associated with family caregiver burden of patients with dementia