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Newest in this topic

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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.

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  1. Health System, Community-Based, or Usual Dementia Care for Persons With Dementia and Caregivers: The D-CARE Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. JAMA 2025-03-18 Caregiving

    In this randomized trial of dementia care programs, no significant differences existed between health system-based and community-based care interventions nor between either active intervention or usual care regarding patient behavioral symptoms and caregiver strain.

  2. Palliative Care Program for Community-Dwelling Individuals With Dementia and Caregivers: The IN-PEACE Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 77 out of 100. JAMA 2025-03-18 Caregiving

    Among community-dwelling patients with moderate to severe dementia and their caregivers, dementia palliative care, compared with usual care, did not significantly improve patients' neuropsychiatric symptoms through 24 months.

  3. A Skill-Based multimodal intervention for dementia caregivers: impact on burden and anxiety

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research 2025-03-17 Caregiving

    The sample consisted predominantly of women (79% in the intervention group, 69% in the control group), with daughters forming the largest caregiver subgroup (66.6% and 52.4%, respectively).

  4. Absence of care among community-dwelling older adults with dementia and functional limitations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Nature Aging 2025-03-17 Caregiving

    Assistance with daily activities is crucial for persons living with dementia and functional limitations, yet many face substantial challenges in accessing adequate care and support.

  5. Sleep Quality of Persons with Dementia and Family Caregivers in Korean Americans: Wearable Technology to Study the Dyadic Association

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Western Journal of Nursing Research 2025-03-17 Caregiving

    A total of 11 dyads participated in the study.

  6. Equity of access in rural and metropolitan dementia diagnosis, management, and care experiences: an exploratory qualitative study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. International Journal for Equity in Health 2025-03-16 Caregiving

    Participants were distributed across various regions of Australia: seven interviews from inner regional Australia, five interviews from outer regional Australia, and twenty-one interviews from metropolitan areas.

  7. Advance care planning and quality of life: A qualitative interview study in people with young-onset dementia and their family caregivers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Palliative Medicine 2025-03-15 Health systems and care delivery

    Four themes were found: sense of self, connection to others, acceptance versus resistance in the face of adversity, and orientation toward the future versus focus on the present.

  8. Is caregiver burden associated with sex and gender-related characteristics? A large-scale survey study among family caregivers of people with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. BMC Geriatrics 2025-03-14 Caregiving

    Female caregivers perceived a greater care burden than male caregivers.

  9. Conditions for Nutritional Care of Elderly Individuals with Dementia and Their Caregivers: An Exploratory Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Nutrients 2025-03-13 Caregiving

    Adults of 78.8 years on average, with low to middle socio-economic status, low education levels, and multiple comorbidities, have adverse well-being and support conditions, except for the spiritual component.

  10. Beliefs and attitudes of family caregivers of People with dementia toward advance care planning: A Q methodology study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Dementia 2025-03-12 End-of-life care

    Three types emerged from 24 caregivers through a Varimax rotation and explained 53% of the total variance.

  11. Challenges and Opportunities in Implementing a Multicomponent Dementia Caregiver Program in a Complex Healthcare System

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. INQUIRY The Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and Financing 2025-03-12 Caregiving

    The Tailored Activity Program (TAP), an intervention for people living with dementia (PLWD) and their caregivers, has been shown to reduce behavioral symptoms for PLWD and caregiver burden.

  12. Empowering Family Care Partners to Optimize Delirium Care for Persons Living With Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 29 out of 100. Research in Gerontological Nursing 2025-03-11 Clinical safety

    The study highlights the significant role FCPs play in DSD care and the urgent need for interventions that address their educational and emotional needs to improve patient and caregiver well-being. [ Research in Gerontological Nursing, 18 (3), 113–123.]

  13. Implementation of Telemedicine for Patients With Dementia and Their Caregivers: Scoping Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2025-03-11 Caregiving

    This study included 54 articles, comprising 14,446 participants from 10 countries.

  14. Online Communities as a Support System for Alzheimer Disease and Dementia Care: Large-Scale Exploratory Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. JMIR Aging 2025-03-08 Caregiving

    Our analysis revealed a diverse range of topics reflecting community members' varying needs and concerns of individuals affected by AD/ADRD.

  15. Music-based therapeutic interventions for people with dementia (Cochrane review update)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2025-03-07 Caregiving

    For music-based therapeutic interventions compared to usual care, we found moderate-certainty evidence that, at the end of treatment, music-based therapeutic interventions probably improved depressive symptoms slightly (standardised mean difference (SMD) -0.23, 95% confidence interval (CI) -0.42 to -0.04; 9 studies, 441 participants), and we found low-certainty evidence that it may have improved overall behavioural problems (SMD -0.31, 95% CI -0.60 to -0.02; 10 studies, 385 participants).

  16. Unmet Activities of Daily Living (ADL) Care Needs and Associated Risk Factors Among Older Adults with Dementia at the End of Life

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 28 out of 100. Journal of Gerontological Social Work 2025-03-05 End-of-life care

    This paper examined the prevalence of and risk factors associated with unmet needs for activities of daily living (ADL) for older adults dying with dementia.

  17. Dementia is a global health issue. Although best-practice guidelines for detection and management of dementia exist for primary care, there is a pressing need for culturally appropriate resources to support care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living with cognitive impairment and dementia.

  18. Multicomponent Intervention for Distressed Informal Caregivers of People With Dementia: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2025-03-03 Caregiving

    The MBI component significantly improved multiple caregiver outcomes, with reduced depressive symptoms (β = -2.13 [95% CI, -2.85 to -1.38]; P Conclusions and relevance In this clinical trial of informal caregivers of people with dementia, synergistic interaction effects were noted for MBI, which enhanced the benefits of SC and BPM on depression.

  19. A look at caregivers for community‐living persons with dementia: Implications for the GUIDE model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-03-01 Caregiving

    Half of GUIDE-eligible PwD received care from multiple caregivers and high strain was common even among caregivers considered "low-complexity" under GUIDE.

  20. Barriers to Accessing Care and Support Services for Older Immigrants and Immigrants with Dementia in Finland: Perspectives of Professional Social and Health Care Providers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 2025-03-01 Caregiving

    Older people's immigration to a different country can place them in a vulnerable situation.

  21. Burden and care time for dementia caregivers in the LIVE@Home.Path trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-03-01 Caregiving

    Two hundred eighty dyads were enrolled. Caregivers during the intervention period reported lower levels of RSS of 0.7 points (standard deviation [SD]: 0.8) compared to the caregivers in the control period.

  22. Clinician type and care setting for treatment of Medicare beneficiaries with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-03-01 Caregiving

    A total of 1,934,318 PLWD received care from 783,225 unique clinicians in 2019; PLWD saw a median of eight clinicians (interquartile range 5, 14).

  23. Optimizing Advance Care Planning in Dementia: Recommendations From a 33-Country Delphi Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 2025-03-01 Caregiving

    Thirty constitutive elements of ACP were identified (e.g., 'assess understanding of ACP').

  24. Attendance was good (82.8% attended ≥4/6 sessions).

  25. Advance care planning for older adults with advanced dementia living at old age homes- perspective of the surrogates

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics Plus 2025-02-28 End-of-life care

    ACP can be useful for person-centered dementia care.

  26. Caring for an older person with dementia: Behavioral problems in the eyes of family caregivers and migrant home care workers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Dementia 2025-02-26 Caregiving

    The present study addresses the perspectives of Israeli family caregivers and migrant care workers on behavioral problems of persons with dementia.

  27. Quality of Life of Older Adults Living With Dementia and Caregiver Strain in Benin

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Value in Health Regional Issues 2025-02-26 Caregiving

    A total of 114 older adults (mean age 73 ± 10 years, 51% female) and their primary caregivers (mean age 49 ± 16 years, 70% female) participated, of whom 73 were recruited from health facilities and 41 from rural communities.

  28. Relationship between anxiety and fatigue in dementia family caregivers: hope as a mediator

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. BMC Nursing 2025-02-26 Caregiving

    The findings revealed a significant negative correlation between fatigue and hope (r = -.431, p <.01), a significant positive correlation between fatigue and anxiety (r =.584, p <.01), and a significant negative correlation between hope and anxiety (r = -.364, p <.01).

  29. Weighted Blankets for Agitation in Hospitalized Patients with Dementia: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. JMIR Research Protocols 2025-02-26 Clinical safety

    Enrollment of participants began on April 23, 2023.

  30. Interactive AI Technology for Dementia Caregivers: Needs and Implementation Evidence

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of Technology in Human Services 2025-02-25 Caregiving

    The increasing prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) places growing strains on family caregivers.

  31. Who’s On Your Team? Classifying Dementia Caregiving Networks and Associations With the Well-being of Caregivers and Care Recipients With Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. The Journals of Gerontology Series B 2025-02-25 Caregiving

    3 network types were identified: "Siloed"-small networks, limited task sharing (29.8% of networks); "Small but Mighty"-small networks, high task sharing (23.0% of networks); and "Complex"-large networks, diverse membership, members who share and specialize in task assistance (47.2%).

  32. Supportive Interventions Involving Family Carers of Patients With Delirium Superimposed on Dementia in Hospital: A Scoping Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. International Journal of Older People Nursing 2025-02-22 Clinical safety

    Fifteen papers were included. Studies focused on educational and system change to improve the care of people with DSD.

  33. “Diagnose & Adios”: Multi-Perspective Insights on Formal Service Use in Dementia Family Caregivers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The Gerontologist 2025-02-21 Caregiving

    Three overarching concepts were identified: "Pathways to Preparedness'", 'Multi-Level Barriers', and 'Bridging the Gap.'

  34. Identifying the needs of natural caregivers caring for a person with dementia: a mixed method study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. BMC Family Practice 2025-02-21 Caregiving

    A total of 199 general practitioners and 67 caregivers participated in the quantitative study.

  35. Use of Feeding Tubes Among Hospitalized Older Adults With Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2025-02-20 Disparities

    Among 143 331 older adults with dementia (83 536 [58.3%] female; mean [SD] age, 83.8 [7.5] years), 1312 (0.9%) received a feeding tube in hospital and 142 019 (99.1%) did not.

  36. Dementia as a predictor of palliative care: Uncovering patient patterns based on German claims data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. BMC Palliative Care 2025-02-18 End-of-life care

    The study cohort for the analysis of inpatient palliative care comprised 43,896 patients, while the cohort for the analysis of outpatient palliative care included a total of 37,430 patients.

  37. Between April 30, 2020, and May 9, 2022, we randomly allocated 204 participants (109 [53%] women and 95 [47%] men) to the intervention group and 98 (60 [61%] women and 38 [39%] men) to the control group. 218 (72%) participants at 6 months and 178 (59%) at 12 months provided cost data.

  38. Gay Men as Caregivers for Spouses with Dementia: Intersections of Gender and Sexual Orientation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. The Journals of Gerontology Series B 2025-02-16 Caregiving

    We find that sexual minority status and gender interact to shape gay men's caregiving approaches.

  39. Uncovering nutrition needs in dyads of caregivers and persons with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-02-16 Caregiving

    Nutrition risk was more common among caregivers when PWD demonstrated nutrition risk.

  40. Caring for People With Dementia: Mapping the Experience and Journey From Diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. The Gerontologist 2025-02-13 Caregiving

    Data indicated that participants' needs fluctuated, with 3 key time points of heightened need: dementia diagnosis, in-home care, and transition into residential care.

  41. Feasibility and Preliminary Efficacy of an Intervention to Support Long-Distance Family Caregivers of Older Adults with Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Clinical Gerontologist 2025-02-11 Caregiving

    LDCs were recruited within the planned timeframe.

  42. Use of Digital Health Technologies for Dementia Care: Bibliometric Analysis and Report

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. JMIR Mental Health 2025-02-10 Caregiving

    A total of 704 records met the inclusion criteria for bibliometric analysis.

  43. Relationships Among Caregiver Burden, Psychological Flexibility Processes, and Anxiety in Family Caregivers of People with Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Clinical Gerontologist 2025-02-09 Caregiving

    The model showed excellent fit. Caregiver burden had a significant direct effect on anxiety (59.1% of the total effect), while indirect effects accounted for 40.9%.

  44. Cost-Effectiveness of a Digitally Supported Care Management Program for Caregivers of People With Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Value in Health 2025-02-06 Costs and economics

    CMS was likely cost-effective from the payer but not from a societal perspective, underlining the importance of informal care.

  45. Unraveling the subjective well-being of formal and informal caregivers for people with dementia: a comparative analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. BMC Geriatrics 2025-02-06 Caregiving

    Formal caregivers exhibited significantly better psychological well-being and self-rated health compared to informal caregivers.

  46. Who Are Midlife Women Family Caregivers With Negative Attitudes Toward Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Care?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Western Journal of Nursing Research 2025-02-06 Caregiving

    Participants' attitude toward Alzheimer's disease and related dementia scores were significantly associated with employment status, race/ethnicity (Hispanic), and instrumental activities of daily living.

  47. “By the Time We Knew …”: Poetic Analysis of End‐of‐Life Caregiving Experiences for Rapidly Progressive and Slower‐Duration Dementia Syndromes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2025-02-05 End-of-life care

    "Rapid-type" caregivers (n = 12) had a median age of 59 (range 45-73) years; 6 were female, and 9 were spouses.

  48. Informal caregivers’ perspectives on participation in a dementia rehabilitation programme

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy 2025-02-05 Caregiving

    There is limited experience in combining interdisciplinary rehabilitation for persons with dementia and caregiver support.

  49. Interventions and Predictors of Transition to Hospice for People Living With Dementia: An Integrative Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The Gerontologist 2025-02-04 End-of-life care

    Fourteen articles met inclusion criteria after critical appraisal.

  50. Aligning Medications With What Matters Most: Conversations Between Pharmacists, People With Dementia, and Care Partners

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2025-02-03 Disparities

    The mean (SD) age of PWD was 81 (8.1) years; 45% were women, 33% Black, and 15% Hispanic.

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