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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.

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  1. Effectiveness of person-centered care on people with dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Clinical interventions in aging 2017-02-17 Caregiving

    Nineteen interventional studies, including 3,985 participants, were identified.

  2. Technologies to Support Community-Dwelling Persons With Dementia: A Position Paper on Issues Regarding Development, Usability, Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness, Deployment, and Ethics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologies 2017-01-16 Costs and economics

    Based on these findings, various actions are recommended for development, usability, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, deployment, and ethics of assistive and health technologies across Europe.

  3. Accuracy of Caregiver Proxy Reports of Home Care Service Use

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society 2016-12-27 Health systems and care delivery

    Although much of the research on service use by older adults with dementia relies on proxy reports by informal caregivers, little research assesses the accuracy of these reports, and that which does exist, does not focus on home care services.

  4. Predictors of care home and hospital admissions and their costs for older people with Alzheimer's disease: findings from a large London case register

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. BMJ open 2016-11-18 Digital health tools

    Most people with dementia prefer to remain in their own homes, and funding bodies see this as cheaper than institutionalisation.

  5. The relation between mood, activity, and interaction in long-term dementia care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Aging & mental health 2016-09-13 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Fulfilling PwD's need for occupation and social interaction is consistent with a person-centred dementia care focus and should have priority in dementia care.

  6. Resident Aggression and Abuse in Assisted Living

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society 2016-07-27 Health systems and care delivery

    This article estimates the prevalence and identifies risk factors of resident aggression and abuse in assisted living facilities.

  7. Experience of media presentations for the alleviation of agitation and emotional distress among dementia patients in a long-term nursing facility

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Dementia 2016-07-26 Clinical safety

    Although the cause and the cure for dementia remain unknown, it is clear that environmental factors can offer relief of cognitive impairment and encourage emotional stability.

  8. Cost of Dementia and Its Correlation With Dependence

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of aging and health 2016-07-09 Costs and economics

    Average annual cost among patients diagnosed with dementia was €43,259, primarily incurred by accommodation.

  9. Analgesic prescribing in care home residents: how epidemiological studies may inform clinical practice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Pain management 2016-07-07 Health systems and care delivery

    Care home residents are often frail with multiple comorbidities and cognitive impairment, most commonly caused by dementia.

  10. Defining Safety in the Nursing Home Setting: Implications for Future Research

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2016-06-01 Health systems and care delivery

    Currently, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Common Format for nursing homes (NHs) accommodates voluntary reporting for 4 adverse events: falls with injury, pressure ulcers, medication errors, and infections.

  11. The association between aspects of daily life and quality of life of people with dementia living in long-term care facilities: a momentary assessment study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2016-04-12 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The results underline the importance of social interaction and a positive mood for a higher QoL.

  12. Costs, Staffing, and Services of Assisted Living in the United States: A Literature Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The health care manager 2016 Health systems and care delivery

    Assisted-living facilities (ALFs), which provide a community for residents who require assistance throughout their day, are an important part of the long-term-care system in the United States.

  13. Which unmet needs contribute to behavior problems in persons with advanced dementia?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Psychiatry research 2015-04-14 Health systems and care delivery

    The Unmet Needs Model states that problem behaviors of people with dementia result from unmet needs stemming from a decreased ability to communicate those needs and to provide for oneself.

  14. Models of home care services for persons with dementia: a narrative review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2015-02-12 Health systems and care delivery

    Case management for persons with dementia may increase use of community-based services and delay nursing home admission.

  15. Nonpharmacological Therapeutic Techniques to Decrease Agitation in Geriatric Psychiatric Patients With Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Gerontological Nursing 2015-02 Clinical safety

    Agitation is not only a frequent and disturbing behavior for many patients with dementia, but it also troubles their caregivers and families.

  16. Infection management and multidrug-resistant organisms in nursing home residents with advanced dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. JAMA internal medicine 2014-10-01 End-of-life care

    The cohort experienced 496 suspected infections; 72.4% were treated with antimicrobials, most commonly quinolones (39.8%) and third- or fourth-generation cephalosporins (20.6%).

  17. Quality of life in dementia: a systematically conducted narrative review of dementia-specific measurement scales

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Aging & mental health 2014-06-02 Costs and economics

    The lack of consensus on measuring QoL in dementia suggests a need for a broader, more rigorously tested QoL measure.

  18. Alzheimer's disease and nursing homes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Health affairs (Project Hope) 2014-04 Health systems and care delivery

    Close to two-thirds of all US nursing home residents have some type of cognitive impairment such as Alzheimer's disease, and the quality of care and quality of life of these people has long been called into question.

  19. What is the current state of care for older people with dementia in general hospitals? A literature review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Dementia (London, England) 2014-01-23 Costs and economics

    This paper summarises a literature review focusing on the literature directly pertaining to the acute care of older people with dementia in general hospitals from 2007 onwards.

  20. Who knows, who cares? Dementia knowledge among nurses, care workers, and family members of people living with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of palliative care 2014-01-01 End-of-life care

    The number of people with dementia is increasing rapidly worldwide.

  21. Vision impairment and nutritional status among older assisted living residents

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Archives of gerontology and geriatrics 2013-12-22 Risk factors

    Vision impairment is common among older persons.

  22. Cornell scale for depression in dementia: study of residents in a northern thai long-term care home

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Psychiatry investigation 2013-12-16 Health systems and care delivery

    ROC analysis revealed a better score for those areas found under the curve for the CSDD-as against the DSM-IV criteria (0.96).

  23. Sexuality in nursing homes: practice and policy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of gerontological nursing 2013-04-26 Health systems and care delivery

    Older adults' sexuality and sexual expression are often overlooked in nursing home and residential care settings.

  24. Precipitating and predisposing events and symptoms for admission to assisted living or nursing home care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Canadian geriatrics journal : CGJ 2013-03-05 Health systems and care delivery

    Of 353 people admitted during the enrolment period, 174 (49%) took part in the survey.

  25. Health insurance status and the care of nursing home residents with advanced dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. JAMA internal medicine 2013 Costs and economics

    Residents enrolled in managed care (n = 133) were more likely to have do-not-hospitalize orders compared with those in traditional Medicare fee for service (n = 158) (63.7% vs 50.9%; adjusted odds ratio, 1.9; 95% CI, 1.1-3.4), were less likely to be transferred to the hospital for acute illness (3.8% vs 15.7%; adjusted odds ratio, 0.2; 95% CI, 0.1-0.5), had more primary care visits per 90 days (mean [SD], 4.8 [2.6] vs 4.2 [5.0]; adjusted rate ratio, 1.3; 95% CI, 1.1-1.6), and had more nurse practitioner visits (3.0 [2.1] vs 0.8 [2.6]; adjusted rate ratio, 3.0; 95% CI, 2.2-4.1).

  26. The prevalence and course of neuropsychiatric symptoms in nursing home patients with dementia: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2012-11-16 Health systems and care delivery

    This review confirms that clinically significant NPSs are common in NH patients with dementia.

  27. Communication skills training in dementia care: a systematic review of effectiveness, training content, and didactic methods in different care settings

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2012-11-02 Health systems and care delivery

    This review shows that communication skills training in dementia care significantly improves the quality of life and wellbeing of people with dementia and increases positive interactions in various care settings.

  28. How do persons with dementia participate in decision making related to health and daily care? a multi-case study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. BMC health services research 2012-08-07 End-of-life care

    Persons with moderate dementia demonstrated variability in how they participated in decision making.

  29. Aging in correctional custody: setting a policy agenda for older prisoner health care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. American journal of public health 2012-06-14 End-of-life care

    An exponential rise in the number of older prisoners is creating new and costly challenges for the criminal justice system, state economies, and communities to which older former prisoners return.

  30. Therapeutic Seal Robot as Biofeedback Medical Device: Qualitative and Quantitative Evaluations of Robot Therapy in Dementia Care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Proceedings of the IEEE 2012-06-14 Digital health tools

    Recently developed robotics technologies are used not only in factories, but also in our daily living environment.

  31. Transitions in care for older adults with and without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2012-05-01 Costs and economics

    Individuals with dementia live and frequently die in community settings.

  32. Cultural shift

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Nursing older people 2011-10-26 Health systems and care delivery

    IT WAS the 'gradual realisation' that what he had been taught about dementiain his nurse and social work training was simply 'not helpful' that prompted Colm Cunningham's interest in dementia research, he says.

  33. Efficacy of treating pain to reduce behavioural disturbances in residents of nursing homes with dementia: cluster randomised clinical trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2011-07-15 Clinical trials

    A systematic approach to the management of pain significantly reduced agitation in residents of nursing homes with moderate to severe dementia.

  34. Costs of care for dementia patients in community setting: an analysis for mild and moderate disease stage

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research 2011-06-25 Digital health tools

    Due to valued informal care, costs of care for community-living patients with moderate dementia are significantly higher than for patients with mild dementia.

  35. A systematic review of different models of home and community care services for older persons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. BMC health services research 2011-05-09 Health systems and care delivery

    The outcomes of each model of care differ and correspond to the model's focus.

  36. The effect of cognitive impairment on the accuracy of the presenting complaint and discharge instruction comprehension in older emergency department patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Annals of emergency medicine 2011-01-26 Risk factors

    Study objective We seek to determine how delirium and dementia affect the accuracy of the presenting illness and discharge instruction comprehension in older emergency department (ED) patients.

  37. Physical and mental health of homebound older adults: an overlooked population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2010-11-10 Health systems and care delivery

    There are currently more than 38.9 million people aged 65 an older in the United States.

  38. Rapid appraisal of barriers to the diagnosis and management of patients with dementia in primary care: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. BMC family practice 2010-07-01 Caregiving

    Much can still be done in the way of service development and provision, GP training and education, and the eradication of stigma attached to dementia, to improve the early detection and management of dementia.

  39. The relationship of 60 disease diagnoses and 15 conditions to preference-based health-related quality of life in Ontario hospital-based long-term care residents

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Medical care 2010-04-01 Health systems and care delivery

    The findings suggest that diseases affect preference-based HRQoL differently in a hospital-based LTC population compared with previous studies in the general population.

  40. Dementia care 1: Person centred approaches help to promote effective communication

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Nursing times 2010 Health systems and care delivery

    Three types of communication were identified: staff to staff, staff to resident, and staff to family.

  41. The aftermath of hip fracture: discharge placement, functional status change, and mortality

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. American journal of epidemiology 2009-10-04 Disparities

    The authors prospectively explored the consequences of hip fracture with regard to discharge placement, functional status, and mortality using the Survey on Assets and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD).

  42. Where to declare poor nursing home care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of vascular surgery 2009-07-26 Health systems and care delivery

    You have been called to the emergency room to evaluate an elderly nursing home patient sent for consultation who has ischemic gangrene of the right foot.

  43. Guiding design of dementia friendly environments in residential care settings: Considering the living experiences

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Dementia 2009-04-22 End-of-life care

    In the past twenty years, the importance of the physical and social environments in supporting the person with dementia has gained a much higher profile in dementia care.

  44. Evidence-based long term care design

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. NeuroRehabilitation 2009 Health systems and care delivery

    Research on the impact of the built environment in long-term care settings continues to grow.

  45. Urinary and fecal incontinence in nursing home residents

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Gastroenterology clinics of North America 2008-09 Health systems and care delivery

    Urinary and fecal incontinence are comorbid conditions affecting over 50% of nursing home residents.

  46. An ethnographic study of stigma and ageism in residential care or assisted living

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The Gerontologist 2008-08 Health systems and care delivery

    Four themes emerged that relate to stigma in RC-AL: (a) ageism in long-term care; (b) stigma as related to disease and illness; (c) sociocultural aspects of stigma; and (d) RC-AL as a stigmatizing setting.

  47. Effectiveness of nonpharmacological interventions in delaying the institutionalization of patients with dementia: a meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2008-04-11 Costs and economics

    Contemporary healthcare policies are designed to shape the conditions that can help delay the institutionalization of patients with dementia.

  48. Person-centred care of people with severe Alzheimer's disease: current status and ways forward

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2008-04-01 End-of-life care

    When caring for people with severe Alzheimer's disease (AD), the concept of the person being central is increasingly advocated in clinical practice and academia as an approach to deliver high-quality care.

  49. The prevalence of elder abuse and neglect: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Age and ageing 2008-03-01 Health systems and care delivery

    Validity of studies was graded by two authors independently using a standardised checklist.

  50. Community occupational therapy for older patients with dementia and their care givers: cost effectiveness study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2008-01-02 Caregiving

    Community occupational therapy intervention for patients with dementia and their care givers is successful and cost effective, especially in terms of informal care giving.

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