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Newest in this topic

  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. Advance care planning: the future

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. BMJ supportive & palliative care 2020-05-15 End-of-life care

    ACP practices are evolving.

  2. SCAI expert consensus statement on out of hospital cardiac arrest

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions 2020-05-14 Risk factors

    Out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) remains a significant public health problem with high mortality and morbidity.

  3. Living Arrangements of Older Adults and COVID‐19 Risk: It Is Not Just Nursing Homes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2020-05-02 Health systems and care delivery

  4. Predictors of attrition in a longitudinal population-based study of aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2020-04-17 Digital health tools

    Attrition was most likely to occur in participants who were older, male, inactive, socially isolated, and cognitively impaired.

  5. Development and Validation of a Prognostic Survival Model With Patient-Reported Outcomes for Patients With Cancer

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. JAMA network open 2020-04-01 End-of-life care

    After backward stepwise selection in year 0, the following factors were associated with increased risk of death by more than 10%: being hospitalized; having congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or dementia; having moderate to high pain; having worse well-being; having functional status in the transitional or end-of-life phase; having any problems with appetite; receiving end-of-life home care; and living in a nursing home.

  6. The consistent burden in published estimates of delirium occurrence in medical inpatients over four decades: a systematic review and meta-analysis study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Age and ageing 2020-04-01 Caregiving

    The incidence and prevalence of delirium in hospitals appears to be stable, though publication bias may have masked true changes.

  7. Hospital Transfer Rates Among US Nursing Home Residents With Advanced Illness Before and After Initiatives to Reduce Hospitalizations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. JAMA internal medicine 2020-03-01 End-of-life care

    The findings of this study suggest that concurrent with new initiatives aimed at reducing hospitalizations, hospital transfers declined between 2011 and 2017 among nursing home residents with advanced illnesses without increased mortality rates.

  8. Validation of two short versions of the Zarit Burden Interview in the palliative care setting: a questionnaire to assess the burden of informal caregivers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer 2020-02-15 End-of-life care

    The ZBI-7 is a valid instrument for measuring caregiver burden in PC.

  9. Triggered Palliative Care Consults: A Systematic Review of Interventions for Hospitalized and Emergency Department Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. Journal of pain and symptom management 2020-02-12 End-of-life care

    We present a range of trigger tools spanning different hospital settings and patient populations.

  10. Consequences of physical inactivity in older adults: A systematic review of reviews and meta-analyses

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports 2020-02-04 Clinical safety

    This review of reviews provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of epidemiological evidence from previously conducted research to assess the associations of physical activity with physical and mental health outcomes in older adults.

  11. Evaluation of a Palliative Care Program for Nursing Homes in 7 Countries: The PACE Cluster-Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 77 out of 100. JAMA internal medicine 2020-02-01 End-of-life care

    Concerning deceased residents, we collected 551 of 610 questionnaires from staff at baseline and 984 of 1178 postintervention in 37 intervention and 36 control homes.

  12. Palliative care for non-cancer conditions in primary care: a time trend analysis in the UK (2009-2014)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. BMJ supportive & palliative care 2020-01-13 End-of-life care

    Recording of a palliative care approach for non-cancer conditions has increased since the introduction of the UK End-of-Life Care Strategy, but remains inadequate.

  13. Three Trends Shaping the Politics of Aging in America

    ⚠ Report — not peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Public Policy & Aging Report 2020-01-01 Health systems and care delivery

    In fact, average benefits are considered modest compared with the benefits of other developed countries.

  14. Hospice Utilization in the United States: A Prospective Cohort Study Comparing Cancer and Noncancer Deaths

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2019-12-27 End-of-life care

    Extrapolating results to the US population, we estimate that annually nearly a million individuals who are likely eligible for hospice die without its services.

  15. Social inequalities in multimorbidity, frailty, disability, and transitions to mortality: a 24-year follow-up of the Whitehall II cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. The Lancet. Public health 2019-12-16 Prevention and risk

    Multimorbidity (hazard ratio [HR] 4·12 [95% CI 3·41-4·98]), frailty (HR 2·38 [95% CI 1·93-2·93]), and disability (HR 1·73 [95% CI 1·34-2·22]) were associated with increased risk of mortality; these associations were not modified by socioeconomic status.

  16. Anticholinergic Drugs in Geriatric Psychopharmacology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2019-12-06 Clinical safety

    Drugs with anticholinergic action are widely prescribed in the elderly population due to their potential clinical benefits.

  17. Risk factors, costs and complications of delayed hospital discharge from internal medicine wards at a Canadian academic medical centre: retrospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. BMC health services research 2019-12-04 Digital health tools

    Delayed discharge is associated with higher hospital costs and complication rates especially nosocomial infections.

  18. Burden of Cause-Specific Mortality Associated With PM2.5 Air Pollution in the United States

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. JAMA network open 2019-11-01 Prevention and risk

    A cohort of 4 522 160 US veterans (4 243 462 [93.8%] male; median [interquartile range] age, 64.1 [55.7-75.5] years; 3 702 942 [82.0%] white, 667 550 [14.8%] black, and 145 593 [3.2%] other race) was followed up for a median (interquartile range) of 10.0 (6.8-10.2) years.

  19. Stalling life expectancy and increased mortality in working ages deserve urgent attention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Lancet Public Health 2019-11-01 Risk factors

    The effect of austerity and associated budgets are strong contenders,3Ruckert A Labonté R Health inequities in the age of austerity: the need for social protection policies.

  20. Fewer patients undergo surgery when adding a comprehensive geriatric assessment in older patients with a hip fracture

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery 2019-10-29 End-of-life care

    The geriatrician can have an important role in decisions for non-surgical management by shared decision making in the pre-operative period in patients ≥ 70 years with a hip fracture in the emergency room.

  21. Elements of Palliative Care in the Last 6 Months of Life: Frequency, Predictors, and Timing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of general internal medicine 2019-10-24 End-of-life care

    Although a high proportion of patients received elements of palliative care, transitions to a goal of comfort or hospice happened very near death.

  22. Neurodegenerative Disease Mortality among Former Professional Soccer Players

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. The New England journal of medicine 2019-10-21 How common it is

    Over a median of 18 years, 1180 former soccer players (15.4%) and 3807 controls (16.5%) died.

  23. Interdisciplinary palliative care for people with advanced Parkinson's disease: a view from the home

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Annals of palliative medicine 2019-10-14 End-of-life care

    As our population ages, therapies increase, and the number of individuals living with advanced PD and related disorders grows, so too does the imperative to recognize and address the palliative care needs of such patients and families.

  24. The observed misalignment of opinion between end users and developers on desirable design features of companion robots demonstrates the need for user-centred design during development.

  25. Early-life adversity and neurological disease: age-old questions and novel answers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2019-09-17 Caregiving

    Neurological illnesses, including cognitive impairment, memory decline and dementia, affect over 50 million people worldwide, imposing a substantial burden on individuals and society.

  26. Home Virtual Visits for Outpatient Follow-Up Stroke Care: Cross-Sectional Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2019-08-21 Health systems and care delivery

    There were 75 subjects in the pilot. The patients were aged 65 (56-73.5) years, and 39% (29/75) resided in rural areas.

  27. Defining Serious Illness Among Adult Surgical Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of pain and symptom management 2019-08-09 End-of-life care

    We identified a consensus definition for serious illness in surgery.

  28. Mechanisms and treatment of late-life depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2019-08-05 Prevention and risk

    Depression predisposes to medical illnesses and advances biological aging indicated by shorter telomere length, accelerated brain aging and advanced epigenetic aging.

  29. The impact of APOE genotype on survival: Results of 38,537 participants from six population-based cohorts (E2-CHARGE)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. PloS one 2019-07-29 Long-term cohort studies

    The APOE-ε4 allele has long been associated with increased risks of Alzheimer's disease and mortality, but the effect of the less prevalent APOE-ε2 allele on diseases in the elderly and survival remains elusive.

  30. Interventions to optimize prescribing for older people in care homes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. International Journal of Nursing Practice 2019-07-09 Health systems and care delivery

    In 2017, the United Nations reported that the world's population aged 60 years and over was 962 million people, over twice as many older persons than was reported in 1980.

  31. Factors associated with frequent use of emergency-department services in a geriatric population: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. BMC geriatrics 2019-07-05 Disparities

    Further studies should bridge the gap in understanding and give a more global portrait by adding important personal variables such as dementia, organizational variables such as use of community and primary care, and contextual variables such as social and economic frailty.

  32. Mortality after osteoporotic hip fracture: incidence, trends, and associated factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research 2019-07-04 Prevention and risk

    For the last 17 years, an increase of mortality for patients with hip fracture and a higher mortality rate in men than in women were observed.

  33. A National Examination Of Long-Term Care Setting, Outcomes, And Disparities Among Elderly Dual Eligibles

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Health affairs (Project Hope) 2019-07-01 Disparities

    The benefits of expanding funding for Medicaid long-term care home and community-based services (HCBS) relative to institutional care are often taken as self-evident.

  34. Palliative care provision in long-term care facilities differs across Europe: Results of a cross-sectional study in six European countries (PACE)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Palliative medicine 2019-07-01 End-of-life care

    The late initiation of palliative care (especially when advance care planning is lacking) and palliative care for residents without cancer, dementia or closely involved relatives deserve attention in all countries.

  35. Prevalence of depression among the elderly (60 years and above) population in India, 1997-2016: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. BMC public health 2019-06-27 Disparities

    Fifty-one studies from 16 States of India were included as 56 datasets, which estimated the prevalence of depression among Indian elderly population as 34.4% (95% CI: 29.3-39.7).

  36. Association of 3-Year Multidomain Intervention and Omega-3 Supplementation with Frailty Incidence

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2019-06-06 Treatments

    In community-dwelling older persons, the combination of a long-term lifestyle MI and omega-3 supplementation did not reduce frailty level or incidence.

  37. Palliative Care in the Hip Fracture Patient

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Geriatric orthopaedic surgery & rehabilitation 2019-05-30 End-of-life care

    Evaluation of each patient using a variety of decision making tools should help the orthopedic surgeon determine which patients would be better suited to non-operative management.

  38. The association between subjective caregiver burden and depressive symptoms in carers of older relatives: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. PloS one 2019-05-29 Caregiving

    Subjective caregiver burden is a significant risk factor for depressive symptoms in carers of older people and may precipitate clinical depression.

  39. The escalating global burden of serious health-related suffering: projections to 2060 by world regions, age groups, and health conditions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. The Lancet. Global health 2019-05-22 Caregiving

    By 2060, an estimated 48 million people (47% of all deaths globally) will die with serious health-related suffering, which represents an 87% increase from 26 million people in 2016. 83% of these deaths will occur in low-income and middle-income countries.

  40. Caregiving Across Diverse Populations: New Evidence From the National Study of Caregiving and Hispanic EPESE

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Innovation in aging 2019-05-01 Disparities

    Caregiving intensity is related to health for non-Latino White CGs and African American dementia CGs.

  41. The silent epidemic of chronic pain in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry 2019-04-17 Caregiving

    Chronic pain is highly prevalent among older adults where it is associated with significant suffering, disability, social isolation, and greater costs and burden to health care systems.

  42. Tools Measuring Quality of Death, Dying, and Care, Completed after Death: Systematic Review of Psychometric Properties

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. The patient 2019-04-01 End-of-life care

    Four tools demonstrated some promise, but no single tool was consistent across all psychometric properties assessed.

  43. Signs and Symptoms of Low-Intake Dehydration Do Not Work in Older Care Home Residents-DRIE Diagnostic Accuracy Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2019-03-12 End-of-life care

    This study consolidates evidence that commonly used signs and symptoms of dehydration lack even basic levels of diagnostic accuracy in older adults, implying that many who are dehydrated are not being identified, thus compromising their health and well-being.

  44. Strengths and support of older people affected by precarity in South Louisiana

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 26 out of 100. International Journal of Older People Nursing 2019-03-12 Risk factors

    The findings demonstrate five central negative conditions of precarity that older people had to manage: (a) loss and discontinuity of home-based healthcare services, (b) stress after loss or disruption of social support, (c) problems of poverty, (d) cognitive impairment and declining health and (e) stress of eviction.

  45. Prevalence, Underlying Causes, and Preventability of Sepsis-Associated Mortality in US Acute Care Hospitals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. JAMA network open 2019-02-01 How common it is

    The study cohort included 568 patients (289 [50.9%] men; mean [SD] age, 70.5 [16.1] years) who died in the hospital or were discharged to hospice.

  46. Emergency department (ED)-initiated palliative care has been shown to improve patient-centred outcomes in older adults with serious, life-limiting illnesses.

  47. The study enrolled 181 participants (mean [SD] age, 69.6 [7.2] years; 114 [63.0%] female): 91 to the intervention arm (depression in later life [DIL] intervention) and 90 to care as usual (CAU).

  48. How to improve the quality of life of elderly people with intellectual disability: A systematic literature review of support strategies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARID 2018-12-21 End-of-life care

    The studies indicated the importance of funding, provision and organization of services/personnel, education, and cooperation among different support systems.

  49. Timing of Palliative Care Consultation and the Impact on Thirty-Day Readmissions and Inpatient Mortality

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of palliative medicine 2018-12-14 End-of-life care

    Inpatient PCC reduces 30-day readmissions and inpatient mortality with the greatest impact demonstrated within six days of hospital admission.

  50. AGE-FRIENDLY NEW ENGLAND: CREATING HEALTHY AGING DATA REPORTS TO SPUR SOCIAL CHANGE

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 29 out of 100. Innovation in Aging 2018-11-01 Risk factors

    Across New England stakeholders are promoting healthy aging by building age-friendly communities (healthyagingdatareports.org).

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