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  1. The Contribution of Routinely Collected Clinical Data to Dementia Identification in Primary Care: A Cross-Sectional Study 2026-10-28
  2. Racial Differences and Temporal Trends in Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Disease-Related 2026-10-24
  3. Prognostic heterogeneity within cognitive stages: a nationwide cohort study of everyday functional difficulties and mortality in 202,508 older adults 2026-10-23

Studies

265 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1989 to 2026

Top journals

  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 38
  • Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 21
  • medRxiv 19
  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 15
  • Research Square 15

104 journals in all.

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  1. Medicare Payments and ACOs for Dementia Patients Across Race and Social Vulnerability

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2024-07-02 Disparities

    Among those newly diagnosed, Black and Hispanic patients encountered higher total costs compared to White patients, and ADRD patients living in the most vulnerable areas experienced the highest total costs compared to patients living in other regions.

  2. Analysis of eligibility criteria in Alzheimer's and related dementias clinical trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Scientific reports 2024-07-01 Disparities

    Overly restrictive clinical trial eligibility criteria can reduce generalizability, slow enrollment, and disproportionately exclude historically underrepresented populations.

  3. Perceptions of cognitive decline among American Indian and Alaska Native elders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2024-06-17 Disparities

    Participants indicated that they are concerned about cognitive decline, are willing to plan for their future care and cognitive testing, and articulated a desire for Tribally led long-term support services.

  4. Racial and ethnic differences in telemedicine use among community-dwelling older adults with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2024-06-05 Disparities

    The analytical sample size of the study was 2,068,937, including 9.9% Black, 82.7% White, and 7.4% Hispanic individuals.

  5. The African American Dementia and Aging Project (AADAPt): An Oregon-based Longitudinal Study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2024-06-03 Disparities

    AADAPt participants had risk factors for developing dementia in future, such as hypertension and hyperlipidemia, but also reported protective factors such as high social engagement.

  6. Creating Cultural and Lifestyle Awareness About Dementia and Co-morbidities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports 2024-04-18 Disparities

    Dementia is a major health concern in society, particularly in the aging population.

  7. Racial and ethnic differences in plasma biomarker eligibility for a preclinical Alzheimer's disease trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-04-17 Biomarkers

    These results suggest that prevalence of brain amyloid pathology differed, but that eligibility based on plasma was equally effective across racial and ethnic group members.

  8. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Neurological Care in the United States

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Seminars in neurology 2024-03-14 Disparities

    The burden of neurological disease is increasing globally.

  9. Promoting diverse perspectives: Addressing health disparities related to Alzheimer's and all dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-03-09 Disparities

    Dementia research lacks appropriate representation of diverse groups who often face substantial adversity and greater risk of dementia.

  10. Preclinical Dementia and Economic Well-Being Trajectories of Racially Diverse Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of aging and health 2024-03-05 Disparities

    Older adults classified with dementia were more likely to drop out of the labor force and become poor than similar older adults without dementia.

  11. Caregivers' attitudes toward blood-based biomarker testing for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2024-02-16 Biomarkers

    Most caregivers (72.0%) favored BBBM for AD diagnosis.

  12. Post-disclosure distress among racial and ethnic groups in a preclinical AD trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-02-08 Disparities

    Reactions to disclosure did not significantly differ among participant groups based on self-reported race and ethnicity.

  13. Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Population-Attributable Fractions of Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Neurology 2024-01-17 Disparities

    Among 91,881 participants (mean age 59.3 at baseline, 55.0% female participants), 16,507 incident ADRD cases were identified from Medicare claims (1999-2016, mean follow-up 9.3 years).

  14. Racial disparities in subjective cognitive decline and its implications among Alzheimer's caretakers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of the National Medical Association 2024-01-06 Disparities

    Significant disparities in symptom severity reported by Alzheimer's caretakers were observed among the racial groups analyzed.

  15. A Community-Based Study of Dementia in Mexican American and Non-Hispanic White Individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2024 Disparities

    1,901 participants completed the MoCA and 547 the HCAP.

  16. Identification of Dementia in Medicare Claims Compared to Rigorous Clinical Assessments in African Americans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2024-01-01 Costs and economics

    Among 88 African Americans with cognitive impairment (mean = 10 years follow-up), Medicare claims identified dementia <2 years from cohort diagnosis in 55%; 27% were identified 2-9.9 years after cohort diagnosis, and in 18% there was either no claims diagnosis during the study period, or claims identified dementia 10+ years after cohort diagnosis.

  17. Programme Dementia Prevention (pdp): A Nationwide Program for Personalized Prevention in Luxembourg

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2024 Prevention trials

    A total number of 450 participants (Mean age = 69.5 years; SD = 10.8) have been screened at different recruitment sites throughout the country, among whom 425 participants (94.4%) met the selection criteria.

  18. Referral Sources Across Racial and Ethnic Groups at Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2024 Disparities

    Included in the analysis were 48,330 participants across 46 ADRCs (mean [SD] age, 71.3 [10.5] years; 20,767 female [57%]; 4,138 Hispanic [8.6%]; 1,392 non-Hispanic Asian [2.9%]; 6,766 non-Hispanic Black [14%] individuals; and 676 individuals [1.4%] of other races.

  19. Understanding Racial Disparities in Dementia Prevalence Among Veterans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2024 Disparities

    During follow up (mean 11.1 years), 13% of Veterans developed dementia.

  20. Economic Burden of Alzheimer's Disease: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. Value in health regional issues 2023-11-14 Costs and economics

    Twelve of 5536 studies met the inclusion criteria.

  21. The Impact of Pandemic-Related Restrictions on Dementia Risk Factors in Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 84 out of 100. Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society 2023-11-06 Prevention trials

    Adults aged 65+ are at highest risk for severe COVID-19 outcomes, and prior to the distribution of vaccines in the U.S., were strongly advised to quarantine at home to reduce risk of infection.

  22. Out-of-Pocket Expenses for Long-Term Care by Dementia Status and Residential Setting among US Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2023-10-17 Health systems and care delivery

    Among 4505 respondents aged ≥70 years, 1750 (38.8%) had possible or probable dementia and 2755 (61.2%) had no dementia.

  23. Advance care planning and outpatient visits among older adults across cognitive levels

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Aging and health research 2023-10-12 End-of-life care

    Advance care planning (ACP) can help reduce end-of-life care challenges for persons with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia and their care partners.

  24. Healthcare Utilization and Advance Care Planning among Older Adults Across Cognitive Levels

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society 2023-07-31 End-of-life care

    This study examined the impact of advance care planning (ACP) on healthcare utilization among older adults with normal cognition and impaired cognition/dementia.

  25. Health Care Resource Use and Social Costs in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Mild Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports 2023-07-14 Caregiving

    Patients with mild AD had higher total costs, patient medical costs, patient social care costs, and family caregiver informal care costs than did patients with MCI; however, only patient medical costs were significantly different (p = 0.022).

  26. Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Dual-Function Life Expectancy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2023-07-08 Disparities

    At ages 50-54, between 79.0% (95% CI: 73.5, 84.5) and 87.6% (95% CI: 84.0, 91.2) of (non-Hispanic) Black, foreign-born Hispanic, and U.S.-born Hispanic women and men remain dual functional as compared with 90.4% (95% CI: 89.3, 91.4) and 91.4% (95% CI: 90.2, 92.5) of (non-Hispanic) White women and men, respectively.

  27. Riding the merry-go-round of racial disparities in ADRD research

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-07-03 Disparities

    With the rapid expansion of the aging population, the burden of Alzheimer's disease related dementias (ADRD) is anticipated to increase in racialized and minoritized groups who are at disproportionately higher risk.

  28. Representativeness of samples enrolled in Alzheimer's disease research centers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2023-06-05 Disparities

    Sociodemographic and health characteristics across ethnoracial groups included in the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center sample (NACC) were compared to the nationally representative Health and Retirement Study (HRS).

  29. Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias in African Americans: Focus on Caregivers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) 2023-03-16 Disparities

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias (ADRD) are chronic illnesses that are highly prevalent in African Americans (AA).

  30. Frequency and implications of coexistent manifestations of serious illness in older adults with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2023-03-13 Costs and economics

    Most PWD (67%) met criteria for another manifestation of serious illness (24% advanced medical condition, 44% ADL impairment).

  31. Racial and Ethnic Differences in Subjective Cognitive Decline - United States, 2015-2020

    ⚠ Report — not peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report 2023-03-10 Disparities

    Subjective cognitive decline (SCD), the self-reported experience of worsening or more frequent memory loss or confusion, might be a symptom of early-stage dementia or future serious cognitive decline such as Alzheimer disease* or a related dementia (ADRD) (1).

  32. Pathways explaining racial/ethnic disparities in incident all-cause dementia among middle-aged US adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-03-03 Disparities

    Compared with Non-Hispanic White (NHW) adults, Non-White adults had a higher incidence of AD-specific (hazard ratio [HR] = 2.05, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.21, 3.49) and all-cause dementia (HR = 2.01, 95% CI: 1.36, 2.98).

  33. Predictors of falls in older adults with and without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-01-12 Risk factors

    Fall rates were higher among PLWD compared to persons without dementia (45.5% vs. 30.9%).

  34. Exploring Reasons for Differential Vulnerability and Alzheimer's Disease Risk in Racial and Ethnic Minorities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2023 Disparities

    When considering race/ethnicity, the presence of more vascular comorbidities drove greater vulnerability.

  35. Racial/ethnic disparities in dementia incidence, outcomes, and health-care utilization

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-12-05 Disparities

    Disparities in incidence of NDD between Black and White beneficiaries narrowed by 0.37 per 100 person-years from 2014 to 2017.

  36. Allergic Diseases and Risk of Incident Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2022-10-17 Digital health tools

    Asthma, allergic rhinitis, and atopic dermatitis were significantly associated with increased risk of all-cause dementia and subtypes, with dose-effect relationships with the severity of allergic diseases.

  37. Global, regional, and national trends of dementia incidence and risk factors, 1990-2019: A Global Burden of Disease study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-08-31 Risk factors

    The declining incidence of dementia in some countries, despite growing prevalence, is encouraging and urges further investigation.

  38. Sibling Deaths, Racial/Ethnic Disadvantage, and Dementia in Later Life

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 2022-08-11 Disparities

    Discrete-time hazard regression results show that sibling loss in mid-to-late life is associated with up to 54% higher risk for dementia.

  39. Alzheimer's disease medication use and adherence patterns by race and ethnicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-08-08 Disparities

    Among newly diagnosed ADRD patients (n = 1299), 26% filled an ADRD prescription ≤90 days and 36% ≤365 days after diagnosis.

  40. Excess Mortality Among Assisted Living Residents With Dementia During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2022-08-08 Health systems and care delivery

    Of the 286,350 residents in 2019 and the 273,601 in 2020 identified in these cohorts, approximately 31% had a diagnosis of ADRD.

  41. Global and regional projections of the economic burden of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias from 2019 to 2050: A value of statistical life approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. EClinicalMedicine 2022-07-22 Disparities

    In 2019, the global VSL-based economic burden of ADRDs was an estimated $2.8 trillion.

  42. Anticipated reactions to learning Alzheimer's disease biomarker results

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-06-22 Disparities

    Two models comprising behavior change and psychological impact fit well for the total sample and the two racial groups.

  43. Identification of Dementia in Recent Medicare Claims Data, Compared With Rigorous Clinical Assessments

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2022-06-01 Costs and economics

    Recent Medicare claims perform reasonably well in identifying dementia; however, there are consistent differences in cases of dementia identified through claims than in rigorous cohort evaluations.

  44. Validation of Claims Algorithms to Identify Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2022-06-01 Costs and economics

    Revised algorithms for dementia diagnosis using Medicare administrative data have reasonable accuracy for research purposes, but investigators should be cognizant of the tradeoffs in accuracy among the approaches they consider.

  45. Association of Medicare bundled payment model with joint replacement care for people with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022-05-30 Costs and economics

    Our sample included 3,361,950 Medicare enrollees with ADRD (2,156,995 women [64%]; mean [SD] age, 83 [8.0] years; 2,646,405 white [78%], 344,478 black [10%], 224,010 Hispanic [7%]).

  46. Vision Impairment and Patient Activation among Medicare Beneficiaries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Ophthalmic epidemiology 2022-05-20 Risk factors

    In total, 6,683 participants were included.

  47. Medicare spending associated with a dementia diagnosis among older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022-05-18 Costs and economics

    Among the diagnosis cohort, mean (SD) overall spending was $4773 ($9774) per quarter - 43% of which was spending on hospital care ($2048).

  48. Dyadic Enrollment in a Phase 3 Mild Cognitive Impairment Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2022-04-29 Disparities

    Among 769 randomized dyads, 73% were spousal, 14% adult child, and 13% other dyads.

  49. Epidemiology and economic burden of Lewy body dementia in the United States

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Current medical research and opinion 2022-04-20 Costs and economics

    From 2010 to 2016, the incidence and prevalence rates of LBD among Medicare beneficiaries ranged from 0.21%-0.18% and 0.90%-0.83%, respectively.

  50. Longitudinal Associations of Mental Disorders With Dementia: 30-Year Analysis of 1.7 Million New Zealand Citizens

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. JAMA psychiatry 2022-04-01 Digital health tools

    In this study, mental disorders were associated with the onset of dementia in the population.

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