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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
  • Palliative medicine 19

387 journals in all.

Newest first, then by address. Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0); tap a score to see what makes it up. Tags were assigned automatically from each study's title and summary. The same studies as a filter in the library.

  1. Protocol for a meta-review of interventions to prevent and manage ICU delirium

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. BMJ Open 2025-02-01 Clinical safety

    ICU delirium is also associated with increased mortality and dementia in the longer term.

  2. The Nun Study: Insights from 30 years of aging and dementia research

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-02-01 How common it is

    The Nun Study is an iconic longitudinal study of aging and dementia on a cohort of 678 Catholic nuns from the School Sisters of Notre Dame.

  3. Hypoactive Delirium: The Critical Need for Collaboration Between Families and Nurses in Prevention, Recognition and Care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Advanced Nursing 2025-01-29 Clinical safety

    Delirium is a common and serious clinical condition that is associated with several adverse, and sometimes permanent outcomes.

  4. Trends in palliative care utilization among older adult decedents with and without cancer in Taiwan: a population-based comparative study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific 2025-01-28 End-of-life care

    The proportion of palliative utilization in cancer deaths started at 21.7% in 2010 and increased to 63.2% by 2020 with the beta coefficient of 0.09 (95% CI: 0.09-0.09).

  5. Disparity in attitudes regarding assisted dying among physicians and the general public in Japan

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. BMC Medical Ethics 2025-01-20 Disparities

    The findings revealed that Japanese physicians did not display support for euthanasia (2%) and assisted suicide (1%); however, the general public supported euthanasia (33%) and assisted suicide (34%).

  6. Fracture Prevention with Infrequent Zoledronate in Women 50 to 60 Years of Age

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. New England Journal of Medicine 2025-01-15 Prevention and risk

    Of 1054 women with a mean age of 56.0 years at baseline, 1003 (95.2%) completed 10 years of follow-up.

  7. Mortality and Function After Hip Fracture or Pneumonia in People With and Without Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2025-01-15 Getting a diagnosis

    Among people with dementia, predicted 1-year mortality was higher among those with hip fracture (35.4%) versus those without hip fracture (14.8%), with similar patterns for pneumonia (49.6% vs. 13.0%).

  8. The Effect of Life Activity Levels of Palliative Care Patients on the Caregivers’ Perception of Caregivers Burden

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Palliative Care 2025-01-15 Caregiving

    The average age for patient was 78.13 ± 10.25 and for caregivers was 54.64 ± 13.22 years.

  9. Validation of the advance care planning engagement survey in Singapore

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. BMC Palliative Care 2025-01-10 End-of-life care

    The ACPES scores were significantly higher for those who reported yes for pre-planning activities such as making a will, making a lasting power of attorney, telling one's doctor about end-of-life care preferences, and telling family or loved ones about end-of-life care preferences.

  10. Development and Validation of a Routine Electronic Health Record-Based Delirium Prediction Model for Surgical Patients Without Dementia: Retrospective Case-Control Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. JMIR Perioperative Medicine 2025-01-09 Clinical safety

    The study cohort included 7167 delirium cases and 7167 matched controls.

  11. Sarcopenia is a risk factor for postoperative delirium in geriatric hip fracture patients: a retrospective study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Frontiers in Medicine 2025-01-06 Clinical safety

    The incidences of POD and sarcopenia in geriatric hip fracture patients are high.

  12. Advance Care Planning Billing Codes Associated With Decreased Healthcare Utilization in Neurological Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of healthcare management / American College of Healthcare Executives 2025-01-03 Health systems and care delivery

    After matching for demographic and health variables, usage of ACP codes was associated with significantly fewer hospitalizations for Alzheimer's disease patients.

  13. Antihypertensive Deprescribing and Functional Status in VA Long‐Term Care Residents With and Without Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2025-01-03 End-of-life care

    In long-term care residents, ADL scores worsened by a mean of 0.29 points (95%CI = 0.27, 0.31) per 3 months and antihypertensive deprescribing did not impact this worsening (difference between groups -0.04 points every 3 months, 95%CI = -0.15, 0.06).

  14. Robots in Nursing Homes: Helping Nurses Detect and Prevent Falls

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Advances in Geriatric Medicine and Research 2025-01-03 Clinical safety

    Falls are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in older adults, especially among nursing home residents.

  15. Assessment of end-of-life care needs among patients with incurable diseases in Bangladesh: A multicenter study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Palliative & Supportive Care 2025-01-01 End-of-life care

    All patients had a Needs Near the End-of-Life Care Screening (NEST-13) score ≥30, indicating a high level of EOL care need.

  16. The Role of Medicare Insurance Coverage Type in Annual Wellness Visits: A Comparison between Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage Plan

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Alzheimer's & Dementia 2025 Health systems and care delivery

    Enrollment in an MA plan is associated with a higher probability of AWV uptake, particularly among vulnerable populations from racial and ethnic minorities, dual eligibility, and those diagnosed with ADRD.

  17. Do Medicare Beneficiaries Under Accountable Care or Medicare Advantage Use Lower Quality Nursing Homes?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2024-12-31 Health systems and care delivery

    Among SNF admissions from 2013 to 2018, the share of ACO-attributed beneficiaries increased from 7.6% to 20.2%, MA enrollees increased from 25.2% to 32.8%, and non-ACO-attributed TM enrollees decreased from 67.2% to 47.3%.

  18. Progress in reducing mortality from 10 major causes by county poverty level, from 1990-1994 to 2016-2020, in the US

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. Med (New York, N.Y.) 2024-12-21 Risk factors

    Overall death rates in the US have been declining in the past few decades.

  19. HEALTH SYSTEM ADOPTION OF COMMUNITY-BASED EXERCISE FOR OLDER ADULTS TO ADDRESS LONELINESS AND SOCIAL ISOLATION

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Innovation in Aging 2024-12-01 Health systems and care delivery

    Research participants enrolled in Falls Prevention EBPs reported decreased levels of loneliness and social isolation and were referred by physicians, social workers, and pharmacists using an order in the electronic medical record (EMR).

  20. POLICY SERIES: INEQUITABLE IMPACTS OF POLICY AND PAYMENT CHANGES ON CARE USE AND OUTCOMES FOR OLDER ADULTS WITH HIGH CARE NEEDS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 27 out of 100. Innovation in Aging 2024-12-01 Health systems and care delivery

    Over the past decade, the CMS has introduced numerous value-based policy initiatives.

  21. Should I stay or should I go again: Multiple switching between fee‐for‐service Medicare and Medicare advantage among older beneficiaries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Health Services Research 2024-10-17 Health systems and care delivery

    Overall, 3.3% of beneficiaries switched to MA annually.

  22. Paying for advance care planning in medicare: Impacts on care and spending near end of life

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of health economics 2024-09-16 Health systems and care delivery

    Spending at end of life (EOL) accounts for a large and growing share of healthcare expenditures in the US, and often reflects aggressive care with questionable value for dying patients.

  23. Epidemiology of Homebound Population Among Beneficiaries of a Large National Medicare Advantage Plan

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Annals of Internal Medicine 2024-08-12 Health systems and care delivery

    In 2022, the overall prevalence of homebound beneficiaries was 22.0% (8.4% of beneficiaries were homebound, and 13.6% were semihomebound).

  24. Assessing the Effectiveness of eHealth Interventions to Manage Multiple Lifestyle Risk Behaviors Among Older Adults: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of medical Internet research 2024-07-31 Treatments

    However, the effect sizes were small.

  25. Medicare-Covered Services Near the End of Life in Medicare Advantage vs Traditional Medicare

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. JAMA Health Forum 2024-07-19 Health systems and care delivery

    Receipt of potentially burdensome hospitalizations and treatments; receipt of postdischarge home and facility care.

  26. Medical costs of Swedish nursing home residents at the end of life: a retrospective observational registry study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. BMC geriatrics 2024-07-05 Health systems and care delivery

    There are many studies of medical costs in late life in general, but nursing home residents' needs and the costs of external medical services and interventions outside of nursing home services are less well described.

  27. Long‐Term Mortality Predictors Using a Machine‐Learning Approach in Patients With Chronic Limb‐Threatening Ischemia After Peripheral Vascular Intervention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Journal of the American Heart Association 2024-05-18 Health systems and care delivery

    Patients with CLTI undergoing peripheral vascular intervention from 2017 to 2018 were derived from the Medicare-linked VQI (Vascular Quality Initiative) registry.

  28. Long‐term outcomes after rehabilitation in Medicare Advantage and fee‐for‐service beneficiaries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2024-04-10 Health systems and care delivery

    Among 738 MA and 1488 FFS participants, weighted mean age was 76 years (SD 7.0), 59% were female, and 9% had probable dementia.

  29. Key lessons to improve care—factors contributing to delayed discharges and cost implications: medical conditions and rehabilitation delays at a tertiary rehabilitation center in Saudi Arabia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. International Journal for Quality in Health Care 2024-04-01 Health systems and care delivery

    TBI had the highest percentage (37%) compared to other conditions, which may be attributed to the prevalent challenge of cognitive impairment in TBI in addition to physical disability.

  30. National Estimates of Short- and Longer-Term Hospital Readmissions After Major Surgery Among Community-Living Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2024-02-28 Health systems and care delivery

    A total of 1780 major operations (representing 9 556 171 survey-weighted operations nationally) were identified from 1477 community-living participants; mean (SD) age was 79.5 (7.0) years, with 56% being female.

  31. Availability and use of telehealth services among patients with ADRD enrolled in traditional Medicare vs. Medicare advantage during the COVID-19 pandemic

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in Public Health 2024-02-27 Health systems and care delivery

    There were 13,700 beneficiaries with full-year enrollment in MA (6,046) or TM (7,724), 518 with ADRD and 13,252 without ADRD.

  32. The rise of home death in the COVID-19 pandemic: a population-based study of death certificate data for adults from 32 countries, 2012-2021

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. EClinicalMedicine 2024-01-02 End-of-life care

    The study included 100.7 million people (51.5% male, 68.0% with ≥70 years), 20.4% died from cancer and 5.8% from dementia; 30.8% of deaths took place at home.

  33. Addressing healthy aging in China: Practices and prospects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Bioscience trends 2024-01-01 End-of-life care

    One important challenge for global development is aging.

  34. Default Palliative Care Consultation for Seriously Ill Hospitalized Patients: A Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 85 out of 100. JAMA 2024-01-01 End-of-life care

    Of 34 239 patients enrolled, 24 065 had lengths of stay of at least 72 hours and were included in the primary analytic sample (10 313 in the default order group and 13 752 in the usual care group; 13 338 [55.4%] women; mean age, 77.9 years).

  35. The Design of Insurance Contracts for Home Versus Nursing Home Long-Term Care

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Not indexed 2024 Health systems and care delivery

    We study the design of optimal (private and/or social) insurance schemes for formal home care and institutional care.

  36. Impact of fee-revision policy for gastrostomy on its implementation among older adults with dementia in Japan

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Public health 2023-12-21 Health systems and care delivery

    This study aimed to evaluate the impact of the policy to reduce the reimbursement fee for percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) on the number of PEG procedures performed among older adults with dementia.

  37. CHARACTERISTICS AND CARE EXPERIENCES OF OLDER DUAL-ENROLLEES LIVING IN AREAS WITH MEDICAID MANAGED LTSS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Innovation in Aging 2023-12-01 Risk factors

    Medicaid-funded long-term services and supports (LTSS) are foundational in helping older dual-enrollees with disabilities remain in the community.

  38. Introduction to Special Issue: Translational Research on Pain and Pain Management in Later Life

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Innovation in Aging 2023-12-01 Health systems and care delivery

    Prevalence studies indicate that as many as 50% of older adults experience bothersome pain on a regular basis (Dahlhamer et al., 2018; Galicia-Castillo & Weiner, 2023; Larsson et al., 2017; Lin et al., 2020; Rikard et al., 2023).

  39. Utilization of P2Y12 Inhibitors in Older Adults With ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction and Frailty

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. The American journal of cardiology 2023-09-27 Health systems and care delivery

    Choosing optimal P2Y12 inhibitor in frail older adults is challenging because they are at increased risk of both ischemic and bleeding events.

  40. Long-term disgust habituation with limited generalisation in care home workers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Not indexed 2023-09-08 Health systems and care delivery

    Furthermore, we found that healthcare assistants showed no behavioural disgust avoidance on a web-based preferential looking task (equivalent to eye tracking).

  41. Video Intervention and Goals-of-Care Documentation in Hospitalized Older Adults: The VIDEO-PCE Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. JAMA network open 2023-09-05 Treatments

    Goals-of-care documentation during the intervention phase occurred among 3744 of 6023 patients (62.2%) compared with 2396 of 4779 patients (50.1%) in the usual care phase (P Conclusions and relevance In this stepped-wedge cluster randomized clinical trial of older adults, a GOC video intervention delivered by PCEs resulted in higher rates of GOC documentation compared with usual care, including among Black or African American individuals, Hispanic or Latino individuals, non-English speakers, and people living with Alzheimer disease and related dementias.

  42. ‘Good, honest food’: older adults' and healthcare professionals' perspectives of dietary influences and food preferences in older age in Ireland

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics 2023-07-31 Risk factors

    A total of 47 adults aged 55+ years were recruited (50% male; 49% aged 60-69 years; 28% aged above 70 years), and 26 HCPs were involved, comprising dietitians (n = 8); geriatricians (n = 6); clinical therapists (n = 4); and nurses, pharmacists, catering managers and meal delivery service coordinators (n = 2 each).

  43. Personalized Integrated Care Promoting Quality of Life for Older People: Protocol for a Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. JMIR research protocols 2023-07-24 Treatments

    The study protocol is part of a project approved and funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 (grant agreement number 875221).

  44. Incidence and Risk Factors of Falls Among Older People in Nursing Homes: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2023-07-08 Clinical safety

    The results from our meta-analysis suggest that the incidence of falls of older adults living in nursing homes is high, and the risk factors for falls are various.

  45. Investigating three ways of measuring the intrinsic capacity domain of vitality: nutritional status, handgrip strength and ageing biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Age and ageing 2023-07-01 Biomarkers

    Vitality was associated with disability primarily through the mediation of other IC domains.

  46. Palliative care to support the needs of adults with neurological disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2023-07-01 End-of-life care

    Neurological diseases cause physical, psychosocial, and spiritual or existential suffering from the time of their diagnosis.

  47. 6-month consequences of COVID-19 in patients discharged from hospital: a cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Lancet (London, England) 2023-06-12 Vascular contributions

    After multivariable adjustment, patients showed an odds ratio (OR) of 1·61 (95% CI 0·80-3·25) for scale 4 versus scale 3 and 4·60 (1·85-11·48) for scale 5-6 versus scale 3 for diffusion impairment; OR 0·88 (0·66-1·17) for scale 4 versus scale 3 and OR 1·76 (1·05-2·96) for scale 5-6 versus scale 3 for anxiety or depression, and OR 0·87 (0·68-1·11) for scale 4 versus scale 3 and 2·75 (1·61-4·69) for scale 5-6 versus scale 3 for fatigue or muscle weakness.

  48. Six-Year Cognitive Trajectory in Older Adults Following Major Surgery and Delirium

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. JAMA internal medicine 2023-05-01 Clinical safety

    This cohort study found that delirium was associated with a 40% acceleration in the slope of cognitive decline out to 72 months following elective surgery.

  49. A Pilot to Implement Chronic Care Management Services at an Academic Medical Center

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 28 out of 100. Gerontology & geriatric medicine 2023-04-04 Health systems and care delivery

    Twenty-three patients participated. Mean age was 82 years.

  50. Patient Characteristics Associated With Being Offered or Choosing Telephone vs Video Virtual Visits Among Medicare Beneficiaries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. JAMA network open 2023-03-30 Health systems and care delivery

    To evaluate characteristics of Medicare beneficiaries associated with practices and clinicians offering telephone visits only and patients receiving telephone visits only, when both telephone and video were available.

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