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  1. End-of-Life Costs of Cancer Patients With Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias in the U.S

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of pain and symptom management 2022-08-02 End-of-life care

    Eighty six thousand three hundred ninety-six beneficiaries were included (43,198 beneficiaries with ADRD and 43,198 beneficiaries without ADRD).

  2. Self-reported hearing loss, hearing aid use, and cognitive function among U.S. older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. International journal of population studies 2022-06-16 Risk factors

    There has been increasing attention to the role of hearing loss as a potentially modifiable risk factor for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.

  3. Economic Evaluation of Healthcare Resource Utilization and Costs for Newly Diagnosed Dementia-Related Psychosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) 2022-03-08 Costs and economics

    This retrospective cohort study described changes in all-cause healthcare resource utilization (HCRU) and associated costs in dementia patients newly diagnosed with psychosis.

  4. Association Between Egg Consumption and Dementia Risk in the EPIC-Spain Dementia Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Frontiers in nutrition 2022-02-23 Prevention and risk

    A total of 774 incident dementia cases were diagnosed and validated, of which 518 were Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  5. The Association Between Loneliness and Psychiatric Symptomatology in Older Psychiatric Outpatients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology 2021-12-23 Risk factors

    80% of participants were lonely. Loneliness was associated with having contacts in less social network domains, in women but not in men.

  6. Risk factors and disease profile of post-vaccination SARS-CoV-2 infection in UK users of the COVID Symptom Study app: a prospective, community-based, nested, case-control study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. The Lancet. Infectious diseases 2021-09-01 Risk factors

    This prospective, community-based, nested, case-control study used self-reported data (eg, on demographics, geographical location, health risk factors, and COVID-19 test results, symptoms, and vaccinations) from UK-based, adult (≥18 years) users of the COVID Symptom Study mobile phone app.

  7. 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.

  8. Marital loss and risk of dementia: Do race and gender matter?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Social science & medicine (1982) 2021-03-02 Disparities

    Recent studies have found that marital loss through divorce or widowhood is associated with a higher risk of dementia for older adults.

  9. Longitudinal analysis of dementia diagnosis and specialty care among racially diverse Medicare beneficiaries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2019-09-04 Costs and economics

    Ascertainment of etiologic dementia subtype may inform hereditary risk and facilitate financial and care planning.

  10. Prevalence and Costs of Discharge Diagnoses in Inpatient General Internal Medicine: a Multi-center Cross-sectional Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of general internal medicine 2018-07-27 Digital health tools

    GIM services care for a markedly heterogeneous population but the most common conditions were similar across 7 hospitals.

  11. Mortality and hospitalization at the end of life in newly admitted nursing home residents with and without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology 2018-05-02 Digital health tools

    A high proportion of residents with and without dementia are hospitalized shortly before death.

  12. Living and dying with advanced dementia: A prospective cohort study of symptoms, service use and care at the end of life

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Palliative medicine 2017-09-18 End-of-life care

    People with advanced dementia lived with distressing symptoms.

  13. Repeat Hospitalizations Predict Mortality in Patients With Heart Failure

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Military medicine 2017-09-01 Digital health tools

    Repeat HF hospitalizations remain a strong predictor of mortality for existing patients with HF.

  14. The care needs and experiences with the use of services of people with young-onset dementia and their caregivers: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2016-06-06 Costs and economics

    The literature indicates that people with YOD and their caregivers face a wide range of difficulties during the disease process.

  15. Poorer outcomes and greater healthcare costs for hospitalised older people with dementia and delirium: a retrospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2016-04-25 Digital health tools

    Hospitalised people with cognitive impairment experience significantly greater length of stay and when discharged to their usual residence are more likely to be readmitted to hospital within 28 days compared with those without cognitive impairment.

  16. From admission to death: prevalence and course of pain, agitation, and shortness of breath, and treatment of these symptoms in nursing home residents with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2015-02-23 End-of-life care

    Pain and agitation were common and frequently persisted in residents with dementia during nursing home stay, but symptom management intensified only at the end of life.

  17. Epidemiological and economic burden of Alzheimer's disease: a systematic literature review of data across Europe and the United States of America

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2015-01-01 Costs and economics

    This review corroborates previous understanding that AD burden is high for both society and healthcare providers.

  18. 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.

  19. Health service utilization among Alzheimer's disease patients: evidence from managed care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2008-04-21 Digital health tools

    Few studies have examined the disease burden of AD in commercial managed care settings.

  20. Disruptive behaviors in Veterans Affairs nursing home residents: how different are residents with serious mental illness?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2004-12-01 Digital health tools

    Many VA nursing home residents have SMI.

  21. The Informant Questionnaire on cognitive decline in the elderly (IQCODE): a review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2004-09-01 Risk factors

    Because the IQCODE provides information complementary to brief cognitive tests, harnessing them together can improve screening accuracy.

  22. Restriction in activity associated with fear of falling among community-based seniors using home care services

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Age and ageing 2004-05-01 Health systems and care delivery

    The results from this study provide information about a group void in the literature pertaining to activity restriction from fear of falling - community-based seniors receiving home care services.

  23. Disclosing a diagnosis of dementia: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2004-02-01 Caregiving

    Existing evidence regarding diagnostic disclosure in dementia is both inconsistent and limited with the perspectives of people with dementia being largely neglected.

  24. Guide to Preventive Cardiology for Women

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Circulation 1999-05-11 Prevention and risk

    C oronary heart disease (CHD) is the single leading cause of death and a significant cause of morbidity among American women. 1 Risk factors for CHD in women are well documented. 2 Compelling data from epidemiological studies and randomized clinical trials show that CHD is largely preventable.

  25. 30-Day Emergency Department Revisit Rates among Older Adults with Documented Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2019-08-12 Digital health tools

    Dementia diagnoses were a significant predictor of 30-day ED revisits.

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