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Newest in this topic

  1. Factors Influencing the Implementation of Computerized Cognitive Training in Chinese Community-Dwelling Elderly: A Qualitative Study 2026-10-28
  2. Development and Preliminary Psychometric Evaluation of a Questionnaire Assessing Nursing Students’ Perceived Capability to Recognise Dementia in Women 2026-10-26
  3. From Dementia Prevention Literacy to Preventive Agency: A Proposed Theoretical Framework for Translating Knowledge into Action 2026-10-20

Studies

199 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1982 to 2026

Top journals

  • Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 14
  • Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 13
  • The Gerontologist 11
  • Research Square 9
  • International journal of geriatric psychiatry 8

100 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. Association Between Dementia Care Programs in Assisted Living Facilities and Transitions to Nursing Homes in Ontario, Canada: A Population-Based Cohort Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2021-08-02 Health systems and care delivery

    There were 11.8 transitions to a nursing home per 100 person-years among older adults who resided in an assisted living facility with a dementia care program, compared with 20.5 transitions to a nursing home per 100 person-years among older adults who resided in an assisted living facility without a dementia care program.

  2. Effects of 1 Year of Lifestyle Intervention on Institutionalized Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of environmental research and public health 2021-07-17 Prevention trials

    The socio-economic and health consequences of our ageing population are well documented, with older adults living in long-term care facilities amongst the frailest possessing specific and significant healthcare and social care needs.

  3. A tablet-based intervention for activating nursing home residents with dementia: results from a cluster-randomized controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2021-06-29 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Levels of apathy decreased slightly in both groups (mean decrease in AES-I of .61 points, 95% CI -3.54, 2.33 for TBI and .36 points, 95% CI -3.27, 2.55 for CAS).

  4. Maintaining and improving mouth care for care home residents: A participatory research project

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of older people nursing 2021-06-24 Health systems and care delivery

    We conducted a participatory research project to address this important area of care.

  5. Meta-ethnography of the purpose of meaningful occupation for people living with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of older people nursing 2021-06-01 Health systems and care delivery

    We found the fundamental purpose of occupation is to support the person living with dementia to feel they are living a meaningful and fulfilling life.

  6. Function-Focused Person-Environment Fit for Long-Term Care Residents With Dementia: Impact on Apathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. The Gerontologist 2021-04-03 Health systems and care delivery

    Yet, the association became not significant after controlling for individual physical function.

  7. Informal Dementia Caregivers: Current Technology Use and Acceptance of Technology in Care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. International journal of environmental research and public health 2021-03-19 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The majority of participants were women (63%), and large number of them used technological devices such as a smartphone (91%) or computer (81%).

  8. The Forgotten Psychopathology of Depressed Long-Term Care Facility Residents: A Call for Evidence-Based Practice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders extra 2021-02-18 Health systems and care delivery

    We had 38,777 and 40,277 hits for depression and dementia, respectively, in long-term care facilities or nursing homes.

  9. Person-Centred Care Transformation in a Nursing Home for Residents with Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders extra 2021-02-02 Health systems and care delivery

    There were statistically significant improvements in resident well-being (Δ = 0.44, p = 0.029), Positive Engagement Potential (Δ = 0.17, p = 0.002), and Occupational Diversity (Δ = 0.12, p = 0.014) in 2016.

  10. Characteristics of Advance Care Planning Interventions Across Dementia Stages: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing 2021-01-21 End-of-life care

    Three ACP interventions focused on mild dementia and seven on advanced dementia.

  11. Community Visioning for Innovation in Integrated Dementia Care: Stakeholder Focus Group Outcomes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of primary care & community health 2021 Health systems and care delivery

    It is estimated that 5.4 million Americans have some form of dementia and these numbers are expected to rise in the coming decades, leading to an unprecedented demand for memory care housing and services.

  12. The Homestead: Developing a Conceptual Framework through Co-Creation for Innovating Long-Term Dementia Care Environments

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International journal of environmental research and public health 2020-12-23 Health systems and care delivery

    Alternative care environments for regular nursing homes are highly warranted to promote health and well-being of residents with dementia that are part of an age-friendly and dementia-friendly city and society.

  13. Revisiting the Role of Physicians in Assisted Living and Residential Care Settings

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Gerontology & geriatric medicine 2020-12-10 Health systems and care delivery

    As the United States population ages, a higher share of adults is likely to use long-term services and supports.

  14. Clinical nurse specialist's role in young-onset dementia care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. British journal of community nursing 2020-12-02 Caregiving

    Post-diagnostic care in young-onset dementia (YoD) varies, from something that is occasionally structured, to improvised, to frequently non-existent depending on geographic region.

  15. Understanding dementia care in care home setting in China: An exploratory qualitative study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Health & social care in the community 2020-10-28 Health systems and care delivery

    Dementia education for healthcare providers has gained growing attention in China.

  16. Intervention Fidelity of a Volunteer-Led Montessori-Based Intervention in a Canadian Long-Term Care Home

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Canadian journal on aging = La revue canadienne du vieillissement 2020-09-30 Health systems and care delivery

    Montessori-based interventions (MBIs) were developed to promote guided participation in meaningful activities by people with dementia patients.

  17. Towards specialised and differentiated long-term care services: a cross-sectional study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. BMC health services research 2020-08-26 Health systems and care delivery

    Specialised care services were highly prevalent.

  18. Continuity of care and health care cost among community-dwelling older adult veterans living with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Health services research 2020-08-19 Costs and economics

    Mean BBC in FY 2014 was 0.32; mean total cost in FY 2015 was $35 425.

  19. Pain Management in Home Health Care: Relationship With Dementia and Facility Admissions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses 2020-07-14 Costs and economics

    Patients with ADRD (n = 1,525, 24.8%) were less likely to have recorded severe pain than others (16.4% vs. 23.6%, p < .001).

  20. A Seat at the Table: Supporting Persons with Severe Dementia in Communicating Their Preferences

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Clinical gerontologist 2020-07-07 Health systems and care delivery

    Neither assessment condition promoted significantly greater levels of consistency (i.e., the same preference rating at Time 1 and Time 2).

  21. Do Patients Retain their Family Physicians after Long-Term Care Entry? A Retrospective Cohort Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2020-06-22 Health systems and care delivery

    Out of 50,089 LTC residents, 12.1% retained their family physicians post-LTC admission.

  22. The Nuts and Bolts of Utilizing Telemedicine in Nursing Homes - The GeriCare@North Experience

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2020-06-20 Health systems and care delivery

    There were 1673 teleconsultations conducted with 850 unique patients.

  23. Mitigating the Effects of a Pandemic: Facilitating Improved Nursing Home Care Delivery Through Technology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. JMIR aging 2020-05-26 Health systems and care delivery

    The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has been particularly challenging for nursing home staff and residents.

  24. Green spaces, dementia and a meaningful life in the community: A mixed studies review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Health & place 2020-04-28 Risk factors

    Engagement in green spaces impacts positively on wellbeing and quality of life.

  25. Co-occurrence of positive staff interactions and positive affect in memory-care residents: An observational study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2020-04-15 Health systems and care delivery

    The most observed resident affect type was neutral (53.1% of all minutes observed), followed by positive affect (44.5%).

  26. Breaking Social Isolation Amidst COVID‐19: A Viewpoint on Improving Access to Technology in Long‐Term Care Facilities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2020-04-11 Cognitive tests and assessment

    In regards to policy-making decisions and resource allocation, the success of making technology more accessible to the marginalized older population should not be measured solely on the outcome of avoiding acute care services; its benefits should rather be assessed with functional health as the focus of intervention, including measures of psychophysical well-being and life satisfaction.9 Higher-end immersive technologies could be installed as a private expense in a patient's room; they could also be made available in common recreational areas within a leisure and/or fitness room, provided by the LTC facility through support of government subsidies and incentives aimed at promoting health of its aging population.

  27. Increasing Complexity of New Nursing Home Residents in Ontario, Canada: A Serial Cross-Sectional Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2020-03-02 Digital health tools

    Admission trends show that new residents were older and had greater multimorbidity and limitations in physical functioning over time.

  28. [Assisted living facilities in inpatient and outpatient settings]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie 2020-02-19 Health systems and care delivery

    Despite a formal inpatient or outpatient classification, the residents living in AL facilities showed significantly higher values for well-being and showed significantly less agitated, challenging behavior compared to the nursing home.

  29. BESI: Behavioral and Environmental Sensing and Intervention for Dementia Caregiver Empowerment-Phases 1 and 2

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias 2020 Caregiving

    Phases 1 and 2 results facilitated targeted changes in BESI, thus improving its overall usability for the final phase of the study, when real-time notifications and interventions will be implemented.

  30. Cost-Effective Care Coordination for People With Dementia at Home

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Innovation in aging 2020-01-01 Costs and economics

    The average cost per enrollee per month was $110, or $1,320 per annum.

  31. Research, recruitment and observational data collection in care homes: lessons from the PACE study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. BMC research notes 2019-08-14 Health systems and care delivery

    Multiple challenges were encountered in creating a sampling framework and contacting, recruiting and retaining care homes in the PACE study.

  32. Graphic designed bedroom doors to support dementia wandering in residential care homes: Innovative practice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Dementia (London, England) 2019-08-07 Health systems and care delivery

    Dementia-friendly designs are important in residential care homes but an aspect that remains neglected is the potential role of door designs in promoting wayfinding.

  33. Care Home Life and Identity: A Qualitative Case Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. The Gerontologist 2019-07-16 Health systems and care delivery

    Four themes were identified: (a) changing with age, (b) independence and autonomy, (c) bounded identity, and (d) social comparison.

  34. Advance care plans in dementia: user-centred design

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. BMJ supportive & palliative care 2019-02-08 End-of-life care

    Nine cyclical stages were undertaken to achieve the outcome of an ACP guide and template.

  35. Using virtual reality in medical education to teach empathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA 2018-10-01 Risk factors

    VR immersion training is an effective teaching method to help medical and health professions students develop empathy and is a budding area for library partnerships.

  36. Engagement and social interaction in dementia care settings. A call for occupational and social justice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Health & social care in the community 2018-09-09 Health systems and care delivery

    As full citizens, people with dementia are entitled to engage in social and occupational activities in residential care settings.

  37. Shared decision-making for people living with dementia in extended care settings: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. BMJ open 2018-06-09 End-of-life care

    Evidence suggests that people living with cognitive impairment value opportunities to be involved in everyday decision-making about their care.

  38. Further investigations are needed to elaborate how the concept of a key contact person could be integrated with existing case management approaches and how the independence and autonomy of people with dementia can be strengthened when formal care needs to be accessed and used.

  39. Home-Time After Discharge Among Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2018-06-01 Digital health tools

    Home-time, which can be readily calculated from administrative claims data, is substantially reduced for many patients following hospitalization for HF and is highly correlated with traditional time-to-event mortality and hospitalization outcomes.

  40. Recognition of the complexity facing residential care homes: a practitioner inquiry

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Primary health care research & development 2018-02-15 Health systems and care delivery

    AimTo explore the experiences and challenges for residential care home staff when managing the healthcare needs of their residents, in particular those living with dementia.

  41. Costs were calculated using cost function figures compared with usual costs.

  42. Two-Year Course of Quality of Life in Nursing Home Residents with Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2018-02-02 Health systems and care delivery

    No change was found in the Qualidem total score (range: 0-111) over 2 years.

  43. Mobility and cognition at admission to the nursing home - a cross-sectional study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. BMC geriatrics 2018-01-30 Health systems and care delivery

    Forty-three percent of the residents were not able to perform the balance test in SPPB.

  44. Evidence-Based Nonpharmacological Practices to Address Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. The Gerontologist 2018-01-01 Health systems and care delivery

    Nonpharmacological practices to address BPSDs include sensory practices (aromatherapy, massage, multi-sensory stimulation, bright light therapy), psychosocial practices (validation therapy, reminiscence therapy, music therapy, pet therapy, meaningful activities), and structured care protocols (bathing, mouth care).

  45. Facilitating Imagine Arts in residential care homes: the artists' perspectives

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Arts & health 2017-12-11 Health systems and care delivery

    Data were analysed using thematic analysis.

  46. Feasibility of Training and Delivering Compassionate Touch in Long-Term Care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Clinical gerontologist 2017-12-08 Health systems and care delivery

    Twenty-four staff members completed the survey and reported positive perspectives about the training, use of the program, and benefits for PWD and themselves.

  47. Long-Term Care Service Trajectories and Their Predictors for Persons Living With Dementia: Results From a Canadian Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of aging and health 2017-08-17 Health systems and care delivery

    Our results revealed relatively equal reliance on home care (HC) and facility-based residential care (RC) as starting points.

  48. State Regulatory Approaches for Dementia Care in Residential Care and Assisted Living

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. The Gerontologist 2017-08-01 Health systems and care delivery

    Sixteen states license or certify dementia care units within RC/AL settings.

  49. Predicting discharge to institutional long-term care following acute hospitalisation: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 86 out of 100. Age and ageing 2017-07-01 Health systems and care delivery

    from 9,176 records, we included 23 studies (n = 354,985 participants).

  50. Costs of a Staff Communication Intervention to Reduce Dementia Behaviors in Nursing Home Care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. The journal of nursing home research sciences 2017-03-03 Health systems and care delivery

    A one percentage point reduction in elderspeak costs $6.75 per staff member with average baseline elderspeak usage.

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