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1,013 studies tagged family, dated 1986-10-01 to 2026-09-17 (1 undated). Bibliography: BibTeX (.bib) · RIS (.ris)
Newest in this topic
- Is there a role for artificial intelligence in end-of-life care for persons with dementia? Perspectives of and recommendations by caregivers and hospice staff 2026-09-17
- Online Peer Support Use Among Informal Caregivers of People Living With Alzheimer Disease or Related Dementias: National Cross-Sectional Web-Based Survey 2026-09-07
- Interconnected Challenges in Dementia Caregiving: A Co-occurrence Network Analysis of Burden, Unmet Needs, and System Failures Among Caregivers 2026-08-17
Studies
1,013 studies carry this tag; 1,012 of them have a date.
Date range
1986 to 2026
Top journals
- Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 63
- The Gerontologist 48
- Alzheimer s & Dementia 28
- International psychogeriatrics 28
- Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 26
339 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.
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Advance care planning before an acute event is only the first step in a process of decision making.
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A mobile team that specializes in palliative care in dementia and supports professional and family caregivers is a promising model.
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Ageing societies and a rising prevalence of dementia are associated with increasing demand for care home places.
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Consultations appear to reduce acute care use and (potentially) burdensome transitions for dying residents with dementia.
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Caregivers of care recipients without dementia or disability accounted for the largest absolute number of helpers.
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This collaboratively developed, person-centred model can support the design of new education and training tools and be readily translated into existing programmes.
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Whilst nursing home managers recognise the potential benefits of advance care planning, barriers and challenges create a reluctance to facilitate.
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Whilst nursing home managers recognise the potential benefits of advance care planning, barriers and challenges create a reluctance to facilitate.
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Achieving pain management in practice was highly challenging.
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67/100
Fifteen studies met inclusion criteria.
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The quality and level of evidence supporting each theme varied.
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Healthcare assistants are frontline staff who have a key role in direct patient care, spending a considerable amount of time with patients in comparison to other health professionals.
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The lack of content surrounding grief represents a gap for this population at high risk for complicated grief and chronic sorrow.
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Residents' mean age was 86.5 years, 39 (12.9%) were African American, and 246 (81.5%) were women.
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End-of-life care policy in the UK states that all people should identify their needs, priorities and preferences for end-of-life care in the form of advance care planning.
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Residents' QoL was negatively associated with advanced dementia, PDU, and NPS.
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Treatment with the PARO robot decreased stress and anxiety in the treatment group and resulted in reductions in the use of psychoactive medications and pain medications in elderly clients with dementia.
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41/100
Physicians often withhold potentially burdensome life-prolonging treatment in nursing home residents in all stages of dementia in the Netherlands.
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Hospice offers holistic support for individuals living with terminal illness and their caregivers.
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As the physiological impact of chronic stress is difficult to study in humans, naturalistic stressors are invaluable sources of information in this area.
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Data collection and analysis Two review authors independently assessed for inclusion all the potential studies we identified as a result of the search strategy.
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Depression, anxiety and sleep problems are the main challenges that are faced by family caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's disease.
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38/100
Despite increasing attention given to dementia by international governments and policy makers, the focus of end of life care has been on the dying trajectory of malignant disease.
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We recommend focusing on cognitive enhancement strategies, assessment and management of BPSD, and carer education and support to delay nursing home placement.
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An Interprofessional Virtual Healthcare Neighborhood (VHN) was designed to deliver information, peer support, and professional guidance to caregivers of individuals with dementia.
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End-of-life care for people with dementia does not differ from care throughout the dementia trajectory.
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38/100
Surrogate decision-making on behalf of a person living with dementia is often a difficult process.
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Integrated Palliative care Outcome Scale for Dementia is a comprehensive and acceptable caregiver-reported measure to detect symptoms and problems in dementia.
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66/100
The findings support the reliability and validity of the Resistiveness to Care Scale for use with older adults with dementia in nursing home settings.
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47/100
It has been proved that the proposed system is suitable to support clinicians to reliably drive and evaluate clinical interventions toward quality of life improvement of people with cognitive impairment.
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The result indicated that five of the six participants showed additional improvement in measures of quality of life and autobiographical memory.
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According to caregivers, residents with dementia experienced fewer other physical symptoms (e.g. nausea) than residents without dementia.
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Beneficiaries with dementia who had lower levels of continuity of care were younger, had a higher income, and had more comorbid medical conditions.
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Our findings reveal several different views on what is important about end-of-life care for people with dementia; therefore, a 'one-size-fits-all' approach to care is unlikely to be most appropriate.
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When compared to usual care, the practice guideline for optimal symptom relief did not relieve discomfort and symptoms in nursing home residents with dementia and pneumonia.
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'We DECide' had a positive influence on advance care planning policy.
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Four broad areas were identified as requiring complex decisions at the end of life; 1) eating/swallowing difficulties, 2) agitation/restlessness, 3) ending life-sustaining treatment, and 4) providing "routine care" at the end of life.
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32/100
Care assistants have a unique insight into the lives of service users and those factors which may impede or enhance the delivery of high quality dementia oriented care.
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The general practitioner (GP) is in a pivotal position to initiate and adapt care for their patients living with dementia.
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In interviews PWD were able to indicate their treatment preferences across all three scenarios.
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The Interdisciplinary Care Leader role offers a promising method for supporting and improving end-of-life care discussions between families of people with advanced dementia and nursing home staff.
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The evidence is not conclusive as to whether some BPSD impact caregiver well-being more than others.
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Our findings indicate the possible need for increased support for caregivers, including educational interventions targeting pain etiology and assessment, and improved communication with health-care professionals.
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The methods we used for intervention fidelity allowed nursing home staff to implement a goals of care decision aid intervention for advanced dementia.
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This meta-review supports the conclusion that being a caregiver for people with dementia is associated with psychological stress and physical ill-health.
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The views of care home staff and relatives had similarities in general terms regarding the problems arising around expressions of sexuality in care homes: indicting that a light-hearted or non-physical connection between residents is deemed acceptable, but the moment it becomes a sexual relationship then decision making becomes more complicated.
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Finding positive gains reduces depressive symptoms and burden and promotespsychological well-being primarily through enhancing self-efficacy in controlling upsetting thoughts.
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Two themes were developed from 12 studies: caregiver needs related to the management of older people with dementia and caregivers' personal needs.
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There is considerable ambiguity about initiating ACP in dementia at diagnosis among physicians practicing in two different European health care systems and caring for different patient populations.
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Despite methodological inconsistency, supporting caregivers appears to be an effective strategy often improving well-being of caregiver or care-recipient and resulting in additional benefits for society.
From across this tag
8 of the 1,002 studies in this tag, 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 8. The same 8 appear here every time.
- Hospice approach to the treatment of patients with advanced dementia of the Alzheimer type
- Generative artificial intelligence in dementia care: a scoping review protocol on nursing roles, experiences and ethical perspectives
- Place of death in patients with dementia and the association with comorbidities: a retrospective population-based observational study in Germany
- Effects of facilitated family case conferencing for advanced dementia: A cluster randomised clinical trial
- Race, Ethnicity, and Other Risks for Live Discharge Among Hospice Patients with Dementia
- The Number Of Family Caregivers Helping Older US Adults Increased From 18 Million To 24 Million, 2011–22
- The effects of socioeconomic status on perceived self‐efficacy among caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias
- Associations of stressors and uplifts of caregiving with caregiver burden and depressive mood: a meta-analysis