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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Food deserts, areas in which it is difficult to obtain affordable, nutritious food, are especially problematic in low-income neighbourhoods.
Why it matters
This article proposes a framework for measuring the community impact of a cooperative grocery store in a food desert. It has no relevance to treating, curing, or preventing Alzheimer's disease.
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Crop area statistics in most of the states in India are provided based on complete enumeration or census approach.
Why it matters
This study is about statistical methods for crop acreage estimation in India, not Alzheimer's disease, so it does not provide information on treating, curing or preventing Alzheimer's. It found that small area estimation produced estimates with acceptable precision.
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25/100
A Life member is defined as a member who has given outstanding and distinguished service to the Association and to health promotion in Australia; where as a Fellow is a member who is regarded as having made a significant contribution to the purposes and objectives of the Association and to health promotion in Australia.
Why it matters
This article reflects on 30 years of the Australian Health Promotion Association and describes health promotion research in rural and metropolitan settings and in primary schools. It does not report any treatment, cure, or prevention for Alzheimer's disease.
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25/100
This chapter examines how grocery stores and Whole Foods Market in particular, have driven the rise of precautionary consumption.
Why it matters
This chapter discusses how grocery stores, particularly Whole Foods Market, encourage precautionary consumption. It has no relevance to treating, curing, or preventing Alzheimer's disease.
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Neuropsychologists are increasingly being asked to determine whether a patient can return to work, classroom, or play (e.g., sports).
Why it matters
This chapter discusses the Virtual Environment Grocery Store as a tool for neuropsychological assessment of real-world functioning. It does not test any treatment, cure, or prevention for Alzheimer's disease.
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There are currently almost three times as many care home beds as NHS hospital beds in England, and the number is projected to rise significantly by 2019 (Laing and Buisson, 2009).
Why it matters
This paper describes ENRICH, an innovation intended to make dementia research easier to carry out in care homes in England. It notes that most care homes have no on-site nursing and rely on community nurses, which shapes how research in these settings must be done.
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Geographic variation in occurrence of dementia within the US has received little attention despite its importance for generation of new etiologic hypotheses and health services research.
Why it matters
This study found that death rates with dementia coded on the death certificate varied widely between US states and increased over the study period. It does not test any treatment, cure or prevention, and the authors say more research is needed to tell whether these patterns reflect real differences or differences in diagnosis and coding.
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25/100
Accompanied by Washington Winn, we paid one last visit to present him with a copy of the just published 5th edition of the Color Atlas.
Why it matters
This is an obituary and a description of a fellowship endowment in microbiology and infectious diseases. It contains no information relevant to treating, curing, or preventing Alzheimer's disease.
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This article is written to help bridge classic Chinese health care systems with the current complementary/alternative medical point of view.
Why it matters
This article describes tai chi for health and medical qigong, including their principles, benefits, contraindications, and how to find a qualified teacher. It presents these mind/body methods as complementary to current medical viewpoints but reports no trial results on dementia outcomes.
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The project exposes a discrepancy between the manner in which the nursing staff perceive use of restraints in an idealistic situation and in a realistic situation and the greater tendency to use restraints in the realistic situation than in the idealistic situation.
Why it matters
This project found a discrepancy between nursing staff's idealistic beliefs about restraint use and their greater tendency to use restraints in realistic situations for dementia patients. It does not test any treatment, cure, or prevention for Alzheimer's disease.
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24/100
The results demonstrate similar poverty patterns as per county data findings on Kenya poverty report, 2022.
Why it matters
This study used a small area estimation method to produce more precise poverty estimates at the sub-county level in Kenya. It provides no information on treating, curing or preventing Alzheimer's disease.
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People living with dementia have the right to access dementia-friendly information about issues that concern them.
Why it matters
This article offers guidance on how to plan, design and write dementia-friendly documents in English, based on prior work and insights from people living with dementia. It is about accessible information, not about treating, curing or preventing the disease.
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24/100
Still, there's something earnest and noble in his face” (p. 126).
Why it matters
This is a literary review of short stories and contains no information about Alzheimer's disease. It cannot inform treating, curing, or preventing Alzheimer's.
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Public health surveillance of overweight prevalence is essential to assess the extent of the problem, identify regions and groups most affected and inform policy-making.
Why it matters
This study used statistical modeling to estimate overweight prevalence at the county level in Kenya, finding higher rates in urban counties. It provides no information on treating, curing or preventing Alzheimer's disease.
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The writers always focus on their experience as being the proper one, followed by two hundred and fifty words on regional terminology and technique, and then conclude with a wink, something along the lines of “no matter what you call it, we all can’t wait to plop a helping of grandma’s goodness onto our plates.”
Why it matters
This essay is about the terms stuffing and dressing in American food writing and has no connection to Alzheimer's disease. It cannot inform any aspect of Alzheimer's treatment, cure, or prevention.
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The wave of ‘silver tsunami’ sweeping over the developed world means that the number of dementia patients expected to double to 75.6 million by 2030.
Why it matters
This paper proposes a dementia village in Singapore as an alternative to traditional nursing homes, describing a gated community with staff and facilities. It is a feasibility proposal about living arrangements and does not test any treatment, cure, or prevention for Alzheimer's disease.
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The results of this study confirm that some sociodemographic groups are more likely to choose priorities that reflect contextual constraints in their lives than others.
Why it matters
This survey of families in Lexington, KY found that different sociodemographic groups prioritize budget, taste, or health differently when grocery shopping. It has no relevance to treating, curing, or preventing Alzheimer's disease.
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Nutrition Facts labels help cut through confusing grocery-store marketing and make it easier to choose foods that fit your health goals and budget.
Why it matters
This resource explains how to read Nutrition Facts labels to make healthier food choices. It has no relevance to treating, curing, or preventing Alzheimer's disease.
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) predicts that, world-wide, depression will be the second largest source of burden of disease by 2020.
Why it matters
This study is about depression and access to mental health services in Ireland, not Alzheimer's disease, so it does not provide information on treating, curing or preventing Alzheimer's. It used spatial microsimulation to estimate the distribution of depression at the small area level.
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A five-point action plan designed to drive up the quality of hospital care for people with dementia is to be issued by the RCN this week.
Why it matters
The Royal College of Nursing issued a five-point action plan to improve the quality of hospital care for people with dementia. It concerns hospital care quality and contains no information on treating, curing or preventing the disease.
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Although extensively studied in the acute care setting, the syndrome of delirium— also referred to as acute confusion—has been a subject of relatively few studies in the long-term care (LTC) setting.
Why it matters
This review reports that the incidence of acute confusion in long-term care residents ranges from 14% to 40%, and that in some cases cognitive impairment may be reversible. It notes that it is not known what proportion of patients in the cited studies actually met criteria for a diagnosis of delirium.
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24/100
Stark said. “These plans typically charge more than traditional Medicare for a large number of services—everything from home health care to hospital stays and chemotherapy drugs to durable medical equipment.
Why it matters
This article describes a bill to limit cost-sharing in Medicare Advantage plans and reports concerns about misleading sales practices affecting beneficiaries, including those with cognitive impairments. It does not report on treating, curing, or preventing Alzheimer's disease.
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The Test of Grocery Shopping Skills (TOGSS) is a performance measure of shopping ability in a grocery store that requires complex cognitive skills.
Why it matters
This study compared grocery shopping performance of people with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder with a normative group, finding that the normative group took less time and showed less redundancy while accuracy of finding items did not differ. It concerns a shopping skills measure in people with serious mental illness and provides no evidence about treating, curing or preventing Alzheimer's disease.
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Scenario #1—Use of test battery code 92557 Comprehensive audiometry threshold $44.53 92567 Tympanometry $19.91 92568 Acoustic Reflex Testing $14.12 92569 Acoustic Reflex Decay Testing $15.20 92506 Evaluation of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing $94.84 Total $188.60 CPT 92506, a code that represents a battery of tests, has a higher work value (i.e., higher reimbursement rate) associated with it than CPT codes for individual CAP tests (e.g., Staggered Spondaic Word test).
Why it matters
This article discusses billing codes for central auditory processing evaluation. It does not address treating, curing, or preventing Alzheimer's disease.
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23/100
If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes one to care for our ill as well.
Why it matters
This essay argues that communities should be involved in caring for people who are ill. It contains no findings on treating, curing, or preventing Alzheimer's disease.
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.
- Lewy body disease or diseases with Lewy bodies?
- Integrating palliative medicine into the care of persons with advanced dementia: identifying appropriate medication use
- Examining Cognitive Decline Across Black and White Participants in the Harvard Aging Brain Study
- Diversity of Studies on Neighborhood Greenspace and Brain Health by Racialized/Ethnic Group and Geographic Region: A Rapid Review
- Perceptions of dementia, caregiving, and help seeking among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans
- Trends in Relative Incidence and Prevalence of Dementia Across Non-Hispanic Black and White Individuals in the United States, 2000-2016
- The Differentiation of Amnestic Type MCI from the Non-Amnestic Types by Structural MRI
- Clinical studies with oxiracetam in patients with dementia of Alzheimer type and multi-infarct dementia of mild to moderate degree
- Towards optimizing the diagnosis of Lewy body dementia: Lessons from the NACC
- The Leading Neighborhood-Level Predictors of Drug Overdose: A Mixed Machine Learning and Spatial Approach