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Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0). Tap a score to see what makes it up.

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  1. Pathways explaining racial/ethnic and socio-economic disparities in dementia incidence: the UK Biobank study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Aging 2023-09-25 Disparities

    After ≤15 years, 5,491 all-cause dementia cases were diagnosed.

  2. Inclusion of hearing and vision impairments in cognitive training interventions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2023-02-20 Risk factors

    Among the 130 articles included in the review, 103 were cognitive training interventions (79%) and 27 were multimodal interventions (21%).

  3. Factors Associated With Hearing Aid Use Among Medicare Beneficiaries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Innovation in aging 2021-06-23 Risk factors

    Overall, 5,146 participants were included.

  4. Factors Associated With Home-Hospice Utilization

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Home healthcare now 2021 End-of-life care

    Utilization of hospice for end-of-life care is known to be lower among racial and ethnic minority groups than among White populations when controlling for other socioeconomic factors.

  5. Informal and formal care among persons with dementia immediately before nursing home admission

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. BMC geriatrics 2020-08-18 Caregiving

    A total of 395 persons with dementia were included.

  6. 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.

  7. Association Between Family Caregiver Burden and Affiliate Stigma in the Families of People with Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. International journal of environmental research and public health 2020-04-17 Caregiving

    Family caregivers of people with dementia (PWD) have a heavy care burden.

  8. Association of Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment With ICU Admission Among Patients Hospitalized Near the End of Life

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. JAMA 2020-03-01 End-of-life care

    For evaluating factors associated with POLST-discordant care, the outcome was ICU admission contrary to POLST order for medical interventions during the last hospitalization of life.

  9. Cohort Profile: The National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. International Journal of Epidemiology 2019-05-19 Risk factors

    For self-care and mobility activities, respondents are asked whether in the past month they used specific assistive devices (e.g. grab bar, walker) while doing a particular activity, whether they had difficulty doing the activity by themselves when using named devices, frequencies compared with a year ago and whether they received help.

  10. Positive Psychosocial Factors and Cognition in Ethnically Diverse Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS 2017-09-19 Disparities

    Positive associations between self-efficacy and language did not significantly differ across race/ethnicity, although the bivariate association between self-efficacy and language was not significant among Hispanics.

  11. Low Completion and Disparities in Advance Care Planning Activities Among Older Medicare Beneficiaries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. JAMA Internal Medicine 2016-11-01 End-of-life care

    Further, we do not know if ACP uptake is greater among those in worse health and with poorer prognoses.

  12. 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%).

  13. Diagnosis, prevention, and management of delirium: summary of NICE guidance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. BMJ 2010-07-28 Costs and economics

    Delirium is a complex clinical syndrome characterised by disturbed consciousness, cognitive function, or perception.

  14. Quality of life in dementia patients in long-term care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2000-02-01 Health systems and care delivery

    Residents exhibited better QOL than expected.

  15. The Canadian Study of Health and Aging: risk factors for Alzheimer's disease in Canada

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurology 1994-11-01 Risk factors

    This study confirmed a number of previously reported risk factors for AD, but provided little support for others.

  16. The course of geriatric depression with "reversible dementia": a controlled study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. American Journal of Psychiatry 1993-11-01 Risk factors

    Irreversible dementia developed significantly more frequently in the depressed group with reversible dementia (43%) than in the group with depression alone (12%).

  17. Psychiatric symptoms and nursing home placement of patients with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. The American journal of psychiatry 1990-08-01 Health systems and care delivery

    Two hundred ten community-dwelling patients with Alzheimer's disease were examined prospectively by psychiatrists as part of a longitudinal study.

  18. Clinical and Sociodemographic Characteristics of New Residents of Assisted Living: A Nested Case-Control Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2024-09-20 Health systems and care delivery

    There were 2427 new residents of assisted living who were matched to 9708 home care recipients [mean (SD) age 85.5 (6.02) years, 72% female].

  19. Initial Perspectives From Rural-Residing Adults on a Digital Cognitive Health Coaching Intervention: Exploratory Qualitative Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. JMIR formative research 2024-07-22 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The following four themes emerged from participants' feedback: (1) healthy lifestyle and behavioral changes, (2) a sense of self-awareness through introspection, (3) value in coach support, and (4) a desire for a change in program format (eg, frequency).

  20. Economic burden of comorbid insomnia in 5 common medical disease subgroups

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine 2023-07-01 Costs and economics

    Sample sizes for individuals with comorbid insomnia ranged from 23,168 (T2DM) to 3,015 (ADRDs).

  21. Representativeness of samples enrolled in Alzheimer's disease research centers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2023-06-05 Disparities

    Sociodemographic and health characteristics across ethnoracial groups included in the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center sample (NACC) were compared to the nationally representative Health and Retirement Study (HRS).

  22. Racial/Ethnic Differences in Risk Factors Associated With Severe COVID-19 Among Older Adults With ADRD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2023-03-09 Disparities

    We found higher risks of COVID-19-related outcomes among Black and Hispanic individuals.

  23. Mindfulness and Care Experience in Family Caregivers of Persons Living with Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports 2023-02-14 Caregiving

    Greater mindfulness was associated with positive outcomes and inversely associated with negative outcomes.

  24. Psychotropic medication prescribing in assisted living and nursing home residents with dementia after the National Partnership

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022-08-19 Health systems and care delivery

    We identified 107,931 beneficiaries with ≥1 month as an AL resident and 323,766 beneficiaries with ≥1 month as a LSNH resident with dementia, including 1,923,867 person-months and 4,984,405 person-months, respectively.

  25. Excess Mortality Among Assisted Living Residents With Dementia During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2022-08-08 Health systems and care delivery

    Of the 286,350 residents in 2019 and the 273,601 in 2020 identified in these cohorts, approximately 31% had a diagnosis of ADRD.

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