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Risk, prevention and care in population studies

8,018 studies in this group. A computer grouped them by what their titles and summaries are about, not by a hand-made list. The name describes most of the group, not every study in it.

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.

  1. The effects of driving cessation on the elderly with dementia and their caregivers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Accident; analysis and prevention 2001-07-01 Clinical safety

    This research explores how the loss of driving privileges by impaired drivers affects households.

  2. Effects of age on tissues and regions of the cerebrum and cerebellum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2001-07-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Normal volunteers, aged 30 to 99 years, were studied with MRI.

  3. The ABILHAND questionnaire as a measure of manual ability in chronic stroke patients: Rasch-based validation and relationship to upper limb impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Stroke 2001-07-01 Vascular contributions

    The ABILHAND questionnaire results in a valid person-centered measure of manual ability in everyday activities.

  4. Behaviour in frontotemporal dementia, Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Acta neurologica Scandinavica 2001-06-01 Clinical safety

    Behavioural characteristics accurately differentiate FTD from AD and CvD.

  5. Family caregiving in hospice: effects on psychological and health functioning among spousal caregivers of hospice patients with lung cancer or dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Hospice journal 2001-01-01 End-of-life care

    Hospice family caregivers are at high risk for both psychological and physical health disorders, and caregiver depression and health problems should be systematically assessed and treated by the hospice team.

  6. Neuroimaging studies of the hippocampus in schizophrenia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Hippocampus 2001-01-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Three neuroimaging techniques, morphometric neuroimaging, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and functional neuroimaging, have provided evidence for abnormal hippocampal structure and function in schizophrenia.

  7. A comparison of sleep profiles in patients with dementia with lewy bodies and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2000-11-01 Clinical safety

    Both groups have extensive sleep problems.

  8. Psychiatric illness in hip fracture

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Age and ageing 2000-11-01 Clinical safety

    Application of predetermined quality criteria for prevalence and outcome studies.

  9. The application of the principles of geriatrics to the management of the older person with cancer

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Critical reviews in oncology/hematology 2000-09-01 Clinical safety

    The risk of comorbid conditions increases with age and may result in underdiagnosis: in older patients, new symptoms may not be clearly recognized by the patient and may be dismissed by practitioners as manifestations of preexisting conditions.

  10. Melatonin for treatment of sundowning in elderly persons with dementia - a preliminary study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Archives of gerontology and geriatrics 2000-08-01 Clinical safety

    This pilot study investigated the impact of melatonin administration as a clinical intervention for improving sleep and alleviating sundowning in 11 elderly nursing home residents who suffer from dementia.

  11. Barriers to healthcare access for cognitively impaired older Hispanics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2000-07-01 Disparities

    This study describes the development of the Barriers to Healthcare Access Survey (BHAS) used to evaluate seven barrier factors believed to influence healthcare access for elderly Hispanics with memory or cognitive problems.

    Why it matters

    This study developed a survey of barriers to healthcare access and applied it to 65 cognitively impaired older Hispanics and their caregivers, finding personal beliefs, language proficiency, and economic status were the most frequently perceived barriers. It concerns healthcare access, not the treatment, cure, or prevention of Alzheimer's disease.

  12. Palliative care for advanced dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Clinics in geriatric medicine 2000-05-01 End-of-life care

    Dementia is a common, devastating, and ultimately fatal illness.

  13. Ginkgo biloba extract: mechanisms and clinical indications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation 2000-05-01 Vascular contributions

    Ginkgo shows promise in treating some of the neurologic sequelae associated with Alzheimer's disease, TBI, stroke, normal aging, edema, tinnitus, and macular degeneration.

  14. Selecting target conditions for quality of care improvement in vulnerable older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2000-04-01 End-of-life care

    The 21 conditions selected as targets for quality improvement among vulnerable older adults include (in rank order): pharmacologic management; depression; dementia; heart failure; stroke (and atrial fibrillation); hospitalization and surgery; falls and mobility disorders; diabetes mellitus; end-of-life care; ischemic heart disease; hypertension; pressure ulcers; osteoporosis; urinary incontinence; pain management; preventive services; hearing impairment; pneumonia and influenza; vision impairment; malnutrition; and osteoarthritis.

  15. Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2000-04-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Structural MRIs of the brains of humans with extensive navigation experience, licensed London taxi drivers, were analyzed and compared with those of control subjects who did not drive taxis.

  16. Neuropsychiatry of Huntington's disease and other basal ganglia disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Psychosomatics 2000-01-01 Clinical safety

    Degenerative diseases of the basal ganglia, such as Huntington's disease (HD), Parkinson's disease, and Wilson's disease, are characterized by motor, cognitive, and psychiatric manifestations.

  17. End-of-life decision making for nursing home residents with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing 2000-01-01 End-of-life care

    Five themes were identified that describe the context of decision making: emotional effect, insult-to-life story, two faces of death, values and goals regarding end-of-life treatments, and the unrecognized trajectory of dying.

  18. Planning end-of-life care for patients with dementia: roles of families and health professionals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Omega 2000-01-01 End-of-life care

    We examined families' end-of-life decision making and their interactions with health professionals.

  19. Progression of falls in postmortem-confirmed parkinsonian disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 1999-11-01 Clinical safety

    Although falls are known to occur in several parkinsonian disorders, such as Parkinson's disease (PD), multiple system atrophy (MSA), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), corticobasal degeneration (CBD), and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), differences in the evolution of this feature have not been studied systematically in pathologically confirmed cases.

  20. Drug-induced cognition disorders in the elderly: incidence, prevention and management

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Drug safety 1999-08-01 Clinical safety

    The aetiology of cognitive impairment is multifactorial; however, drugs are an important cause of delirium and dementia.

  21. Depression duration but not age predicts hippocampal volume loss in medically healthy women with recurrent major depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 1999-06-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    This study takes advantage of continuing advances in the precision of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to quantify hippocampal volumes in a series of human subjects with a history of depression compared with controls.

  22. Does stress damage the brain?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 1999-04-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Studies in animals showed that stress results in damage to the hippocampus, a brain area involved in learning and memory, with associated memory deficits.

  23. Hippocampal volume in patients with alcohol dependence

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Archives of general psychiatry 1999-04-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    In chronic alcoholism, the reduction of hippocampal volume is proportional to the reduction of the brain volume.

  24. Effect of literacy on neuropsychological test performance in nondemented, education-matched elders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS 1999-03-01 Vascular contributions

    The current investigation compared neuropsychological test performance among nondemented literate and illiterate elders.

  25. Criteria for enrolling dementia patients in hospice: a replication

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The American journal of hospice & palliative care 1999-01-01 End-of-life care

    Because survival time varies greatly in dementia, it is difficult for dementia patients to meet a key criterion for the Medicare Hospice Benefit, a six-month survival time.

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