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  1. Secondary causes among adult patients presenting with first-episode psychosis to acute medical settings in Hong Kong: A 10-Year retrospective study 2026-09-04
  2. Aspirin and healthy longevity within racial and ethnic minoritized older adults in the United States 2026-08-27
  3. Baseline Statin Exposure and Incident Acute Myocardial Infarction in Adults Aged >=75 Years Without Prior Cardiovascular Disease: A Population-Based Cohort Study 2026-08-25

Studies

866 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1963 to 2026

Top journals

  • Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 65
  • JAMA 24
  • Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 22
  • Journal of pain and symptom management 20
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387 journals in all.

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  1. 74,396 patients (median age 84, IQR 78-89; 68% female) were analyzed.

  2. Lung ultrasound (LUS) as a predictor of delirium in elderly patients with COVID-19 during hospitalization: A geriatric vulnerability-stress model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics Plus 2025-07-02 Clinical safety

    LUS and cognitive impairment are strong predictors of delirium in elderly COVID-19 patients.

  3. Delirium and COVID-19: prevalence, outcomes and associated factors in a cohort of elderly inpatients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Minerva Psychiatry 2025-07-01 How common it is

    The study included 212 patients, with a mean age of 82.27 years.

  4. Occurrence, associated factors, and outcomes of delirium in patients in an adult acute general medicine service in England: a 10-year longitudinal, observational study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. The Lancet Healthy Longevity 2025-07-01 Clinical safety

    In those aged 65 years or older, delirium was overall associated (all p<0·001, age and sex adjusted) with dementia ( adj OR 3·63 [95% CI 2·65–4·98]), pre-admission dependency (2·63 [2·02–3·43]), comorbidity burden (1·04 [1·02–1·05]), and frailty (moderate vs low risk 3·62 [2·70–4·85] and high vs low risk 11·85 [7·24–19·42]), with stronger associations in patients without comorbid dementia than in those with comorbid dementia.

  5. Delirium in nursing homes and long-term care facilities: findings of a scoping review of detection tools

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. European Geriatric Medicine 2025-06-28 Clinical safety

    A total of 58 studies met the inclusion criteria, with most conducted in the USA (37.9%) and Europe.

  6. Epidemiology of oral health in older adults aged 65 or over: prevalence, risk factors and prevention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research 2025-06-23 Prevention and risk

    Oral diseases have emerged as one of the most prevalent non-communicable diseases (NCDs) worldwide, with a high global average prevalence of 45%, affecting an estimated 3.5 billion people globally.

  7. Exploring Factors Related to Social Isolation Among Older Adults in the Predementia Stage Using Ecological Momentary Assessments and Actigraphy: Machine Learning Approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2025-06-23 Digital health tools

    Of the 99 participants, 43 were classified into the low social interaction frequency group, and 37 were classified into the high loneliness level group.

  8. Enhancing Delirium Prediction and Prevention in Elderly Patients Through Machine Learning-Based Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Sultan Qaboos University medical journal 2025-06-13 Clinical safety

    A total of 327 patients were included in this study.

  9. Assessing the Time for Living and Caring (TLC) Study: Mixed-Methods Feasibility Study of a Web-Based Caregiver Intervention to Improve Respite

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. JMIR Aging 2025-06-10 Caregiving

    The TLC study used an appropriate design and data collection procedures, along with acceptable recruitment capability.

  10. AI-delirium guard: Predictive modeling of postoperative delirium in elderly surgical patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. PLoS ONE 2025-06-05 Clinical safety

    The optimized XGBoost model demonstrated superior performance, achieving an AUC of 0.85.

  11. Falls, Sleep Disorders and Cognitive Frailty in Hospitalized Older Adults with Hypertension:A Cross-Sectional Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Clinical Interventions in Aging 2025-06-01 Clinical safety

    A total of 266 older adults with hypertension were surveyed in this study, of whom 108 reported having fallen once or more in the past year.

  12. Guanfacine for the management of the behavioral manifestations of delirium in older hospitalized adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Mental Health Clinician 2025-06-01 Clinical safety

    Upon initiation of guanfacine, patients with delirium had a reduction in daily antipsychotic exposure and a decrease in positive delirium screens.

  13. Impact of disease type and temporal trends on the proximity of palliative care initiation to death in older adults: a population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Age and Ageing 2025-05-31 End-of-life care

    Among 177 403 decedents, 82.41% had cancer and 17.59% non-cancer diagnoses.

  14. Validation of the 4AT for assessing recovery from delirium in older hospital patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Age and Ageing 2025-05-31 Clinical safety

    A total of 120 people with delirium participated [median age 86.3, range 70-99, 67 (55.8%) female and 55 (45.8%) with dementia].

  15. End-of Life Care Disparities Experienced by American Indian and Alaska Natives Peoples: An Analysis of Data from the 2019 Medicare Master Beneficiary Summary File

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Palliative Medicine 2025-05-27 End-of-life care

    AI/AN patients at the end-of-life were more likely to be hospitalized and less likely to use hospice compared with their NHW counterparts.

  16. Directed acyclic graphs to minimise bias and optimise causal inference in SNAP-3: an observational cohort study of frailty, multimorbidity, and delirium in older surgical patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. British Journal of Anaesthesia 2025-05-26 Clinical safety

    DAGs provide visual representations of assumptions made, and provide an objective approach to appropriate statistical adjustments.

  17. The Epidemiology of Social Isolation and Loneliness Among Family and Unpaid Caregivers of Older Adults: Findings From the National Study of Caregiving

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The Journals of Gerontology Series B 2025-05-24 Risk factors

    About 12% of caregivers (2.8 million) were socially isolated and 27% (6.3 million) were lonely.

  18. Better Assessment of Illness Study (BASIL) II for Delirium Severity: Study Design, Variables, and Methods

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology 2025-05-16 Clinical safety

    PurposeDelirium is a common yet preventable complication of hospitalization, surgery and illness that is associated with poor outcomes.

  19. Outcomes of Physical and Occupational Therapy Evaluation in the Emergency Department for Older Adults With Falls: A Retrospective Multicenter Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open 2025-05-15 Clinical safety

    In total, 945 were included patients, and 28.1% (n = 266) had dementia.

  20. Machine Learning for Predicting Postoperative Functional Disability and Mortality Among Older Patients With Cancer: Retrospective Cohort Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. JMIR Aging 2025-05-14 Digital health tools

    This study included 33,355 patients in the training, 14,294 in the internal validation, and 6711 in the external validation sets.

  21. The Impact of Delirium on Hospitalized Patients With COPD Exacerbation: Insights From the National In-Patient Sample

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Respiratory Care 2025-05-09 Clinical safety

    A total of 8,062,333 subjects hospitalized with COPD exacerbation were included, of whom 574,005 (7.2%) had a diagnosis of delirium.

  22. Disease and Race‐Based Differences in Inpatient Palliative Care Consultation in Cancer and Noncancer Serious Illnesses

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2025-05-07 End-of-life care

    Among 40,074 inpatient encounters (median age 72 years [IQR 62-82], 46.9% male, 22.7% Black, 4.6% Hispanic), the most common serious illness was heart failure (66.0%), followed by COPD (39.3%), kidney failure (12.4%), cancer (12.3%), and dementia (11.6%).

  23. Incidence and Risk Factors of Postoperative Delirium in Elderly Patients Following Hip Fracture Surgery: A Nationwide Retrospective Cohort Study in Taiwan

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2025-05-01 How common it is

    The incidence of the first episode of delirium after hip surgery in the elderly was 1.87 events per 1000 PYs.

  24. Planning Ahead: protocol for a randomised trial of advance care planning for community dwelling older adults at increased mortality risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. BMJ Open 2025-05-01 End-of-life care

    An important goal of advance care planning (ACP) is ensuring that patients receive care concordant with their preferences.

  25. The importance of the presence of chosen family in preventing peri-operative delirium

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. European Journal of Anaesthesiology 2025-05-01 Clinical safety

    It remains a common yet underrecognised complication in older surgical patients, significantly influencing recovery, prolonging hospital stays and increasing healthcare costs and workload.1 Although traditionally peri-operative care has prioritised physical stabilisation, effectively addressing POD requires a holistic approach that also considers patients’ emotional and social well being.2 One well established strategy for managing delirium is the active involvement of family and caregivers.

  26. Incidence and Risk Factors of Delirium in COPD Patient in Intensive Care Unit

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Archives of Neuroscience 2025-04-29 Clinical safety

    Of the 74 patients examined, 19 (25.7%) experienced delirium, while 55 (74.3%) showed no symptoms of delirium.

  27. Delirium in the emergency department: Incidence and risk factors in a Ligurian hospital

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics Plus 2025-04-26 Risk factors

    Delirium, a severe neuropsychiatric syndrome characterised by acute deficits in attention and self-awareness, is common among elderly inpatients, with incidence increasing with age and prolonged hospitalisation.

  28. Cluster Analysis of Palliative Care Patients’ Trajectories in Primary Care: Hospitalization Yes, but Home and Nursing Home Care Above All

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Journal of Palliative Medicine 2025-04-18 End-of-life care

    Three hundred adult patients were included in the study.

  29. Systolic blood pressure variability: risk of cardiovascular events, chronic kidney disease, dementia, and death

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. European Heart Journal 2025-04-18 Caregiving

    A total of 36 251 participants were included with a median follow-up time of 13.9 years.

  30. Rate of advance care planning practice during the COVID-19 outbreak in Japan: a cross-sectional survey study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research 2025-04-07 End-of-life care

    Of the 258 surveyed doctors, 74 (28.7%) practiced ACP.

  31. Delirium in Elderly Hospitalized Patients: Analyzing Clinical and Social Determinants in a Colombian Retrospective Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2025-04-01 Clinical safety

    The studied cohort comprised 4601 patients, mean age of 83.93 years and 56.26% were women.

  32. Demographic, Health, and Social Predictors of Place of Death in England, 2004-2013: Identifying barriers to dying in the community

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of Aging & Social Policy 2025-04-01 End-of-life care

    The reduction of hospital deaths is a policy priority in most developed countries.

  33. Feasibility of Telephone‐Based Cognitive Assessments and Healthcare Utilization in US Medicare‐Enrolled Older Adults Following Emergency Department Discharge

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2025-04-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Twenty-six percent of eligible ED users contacted elected for study enrollment.

  34. Using a collaborative approach to reduce falls in older people’s adult mental health wards in a local health board in Wales

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. BMJ Open Quality 2025-04-01 Clinical safety

    Between April 2020 and March 2021, the number of fall-related emergency admissions in England for adults over 65 years was 1933 per 100 000 people.

  35. Trends in hospital discharge outcomes among high-risk Medicare beneficiaries before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Health Affairs Scholar 2025-03-18 Health systems and care delivery

    We found that COVID patients initially experienced substantially longer hospital stays (8.3 vs 4.6 days) and higher 30-day mortality (34% vs 5%) compared to patients without COVID.

  36. Improving Respite Outcomes for Caregivers: Who Benefits and Under What Conditions?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of Applied Gerontology 2025-03-11 Caregiving

    Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) pose a substantial caregiving burden in the United States, yet efforts to improve caregiver well-being have seen mixed results.

  37. Delirium management in 2024: A status check and evolution in clinical practice since 2016

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Intensive and Critical Care Nursing 2025-03-08 Clinical safety

    Participating ICU in both surveys (2016: n = 559, 2024: n = 447) had similar basic characteristics and enabled comparison.

  38. Wealth Disparities in End-of-Life Symptom Burden Among Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2025-03-06 Disparities

    Of 8976 decedents (mean [SD] age, 81.3 [8.6] years; 4927 women [55.1%] women) in the cohort, 2197 (22.5%) were included in the low wealth category, 4534 (50.5%) in the medium wealth category, and 2245 (27.1%) in the high wealth category.

  39. Use of Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, and Edge Intelligence in Long-Term Care for Older People: Comprehensive Analysis Through Bibliometric, Google Trends, and Content Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2025-03-04 Digital health tools

    A total of 6378 papers published between 2014 and 2023 were analyzed.

  40. Palliative Care in the Community and the Relevance of Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy Placement to Quality of Life and Survival

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of dementia and Alzheimer's disease 2025-03-01 End-of-life care

    The statistical analysis revealed that the survival time was significantly longer in females compared to males (p = 0.003).

  41. The evolution of serious health-related suffering from 1990 to 2021: an update to The Lancet Commission on global access to palliative care and pain relief

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. The Lancet Global Health 2025-02-26 Caregiving

    The SHS global burden increased by 74% between 1990 and 2021 to almost 73·5 million individuals, with population growth accounting for only half of that increase.

  42. Prevalence and Risk Factors for Delirium on Arrival at the Emergency Room by Ambulance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Cureus 2025-02-25 Clinical safety

    Of the 20,660 patients who visited the ER, 1,486 patients who were transported by ambulance were included in this study.

  43. Association between chronic illnesses in older adults and caregiver burden: a cross sectional study in the United States

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Aging & Mental Health 2025-02-24 Caregiving

    Dementia was significantly associated with caregiver burden related to emotional difficulty (odds ratio [OR] = 2.04; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.34-3.09) and physical difficulty (OR = 1.67, 95% CI, 1.01-2.78), but not financial difficulty.

  44. Impact of Implantable Hearing Devices on Delirium Risk in Patients with Hearing Loss: A National Database Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Otology & Neurotology 2025-02-24 Clinical safety

    The control cohort (n = 36.5 million) was 1:1 PSM for age and sex with the HL cohort (n = 1.77 million) in which 0.28% of patients developed delirium compared to 0.74% in the HL cohort (OR 2.66, 95% CI = 2.58-2.75).

  45. The task force issued five statements related to the management of anxiety, agitation/sedation, delirium, immobility, and sleep disruption in adults admitted to the ICU.

  46. CONVERTING MOCA-J TO MMSE-J IN COMMUNITY-DWELLING JAPANESE OLDER ADULTS: A PILOT STUDY

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. PSYCHOLOGIA 2025-02-17 Cognitive tests and assessment

    This study aimed to develop a conversion table for the Japanese version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA-J) to the Japanese version of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE-J) to facilitate prediction of the MMSE-J score from the MoCA-J score.

  47. ‘Getting Everyone on the Same Page’: Long‐Term‐Care Nurses' Experiences With Advance Care Planning

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 30 out of 100. International Journal of Older People Nursing 2025-02-13 End-of-life care

    The basic social process that emerged from the data was that of nurses trying to identify an ACP level and craft a corresponding care plan that they believed would optimise residents' comfort in LTC during both acute medical events and at the end-of-life (EOL).

  48. Nurses’ usage of validated tools to assess for delirium in general acute care settings: A scoping review protocol

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 29 out of 100. HRB Open Research 2025-02-13 Clinical safety

    The PRISMA-ScR flow diagram will present the results of the search.

  49. Comorbidity Trajectories Before and After the Diagnosis of Heart Failure: A UK Biobank Cohort Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. European Journal of Heart Failure 2025-02-11 Long-term cohort studies

    We identified all participants in the UK Biobank cohort study diagnosed with HF prior to enrolment or during follow-up, who had disease occurrence data available from both primary and secondary care records (n = 9824).

  50. Prior authorization and utilization management for post-acute home health in Medicare Advantage: the motivations, players, processes, unique challenges, and impacts on patient care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Health Affairs Scholar 2025-02-04 Health systems and care delivery

    In 2024, 90% of Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollees were in a plan that required prior authorization of home health care.

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