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  1. Immediate reactions to amyloid PET disclosure in Japanese older adults without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2025-12-19 Brain scans and imaging

    Twenty-six percent of participants were PET positive.

  2. Perceptions of cognitive decline among American Indian and Alaska Native elders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2024-06-17 Disparities

    Participants indicated that they are concerned about cognitive decline, are willing to plan for their future care and cognitive testing, and articulated a desire for Tribally led long-term support services.

  3. Needs analysis of family caregivers of people living with dementia in Sleman Regency, Yogyakarta

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Psychogeriatrics : the official journal of the Japanese Psychogeriatric Society 2024-06-04 Caregiving

    The result of the validity test of the CNA-D instrument, Indonesian version, obtained a high value for content validity.

  4. Dementia Caregiving Experiences and Health Across Geographic Contexts by Race and Ethnicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 2023-03-13 Disparities

    Bivariate analyses indicated that nonmetro dementia caregivers were less racially/ethnically diverse (82.7% White, non-Hispanic) and more were spouses/partners (20.2%) than their metro counterparts (66.6% White, non-Hispanic; 13.3% spouses/partners).

  5. The Association Between Race and Place of Death Among Persons With Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Journal of pain and symptom management 2022-05-23 Disparities

    The sample included 993 decedents with dementia (81.4% white; 11.0% black, 7.6% hispanic).

  6. Implementation of an Emergency Power Rule: Compliance of Florida Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Facilities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Disaster medicine and public health preparedness 2022-03-16 Health systems and care delivery

    A total of 219 (32.9%) NHs and 2219 (75.5%) ALFs had an emergency power plan implemented by January 1, 2019.

  7. Developments in the Market for Assisted Living: Residential Care Availability in 2017

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2020-09-29 Health systems and care delivery

    In comparison to counties with the lowest AL penetration, high-penetration counties had higher high school and college education attainment (mean 25.3% vs 18.5%) and median annual income ($56,000 vs $46,800), and lower poverty (12.8% vs 17.3%) and unemployment rates (3.9% vs 5.1%).

  8. Change in Social Engagement among Incident Caregivers and Controls: Findings from the Caregiving Transitions Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Journal of aging and health 2020-09-23 Risk factors

    Incident caregivers reported lower satisfaction with social activities and greater decline in social network size than controls.

  9. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Dementia Risk Among Individuals With Low Education

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2018-05-23 Disparities

    As indicated by Cox regression modeling, dementia risk of low-educated individuals was not significantly different between ethnic groups but was related to having an APOE e4 allele (hazard ratio [HR] 1.89), depression (HR 1.67), stroke (HR 1.60), and smoking (HR 1.32).

  10. End-of-life decisions in individuals dying with dementia in Belgium

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2015-02-02 End-of-life care

    Response rate was 54.7%. The intense pain and symptoms of individuals with dementia was alleviated less often than those of individuals with cancer (odds ratio (OR) = 0.50, P < .001), and individuals with dementia were more likely to have life-prolonging treatment withheld or withdrawn (OR = 1.40, P = .048).

  11. Family caregiving in dementia: the Asian perspective of a global problem

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2011-01-20 Caregiving

    A full understanding of the specific way that culture could influence family caregivers' burdens may play an important part in the development of a holistic model for family-centered care.

  12. Financial Presentation of Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. JAMA internal medicine 2021-02-01 Digital health tools

    Alzheimer disease and related dementias were associated with adverse financial events years prior to clinical diagnosis that become more prevalent after diagnosis and were most common in lower-education census tracts.

  13. Vision Impairment and Risk of Dementia: Findings from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2018-08-11 Risk factors

    Our study confirms and extends findings from other countries, demonstrating cross-sectional associations between moderate and poor self-rated vision and dementia in England in all participants aged 50 and older and longitudinally over an 11-year period in those aged 50 to 69.

  14. Home-Time After Discharge Among Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2018-06-01 Digital health tools

    Home-time, which can be readily calculated from administrative claims data, is substantially reduced for many patients following hospitalization for HF and is highly correlated with traditional time-to-event mortality and hospitalization outcomes.

  15. 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.

  16. Predicting imminent risk for fracture in patients aged 50 or older with osteoporosis using US claims data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Archives of osteoporosis 2016-07-30 Digital health tools

    In patients with osteoporosis and no recent fracture, falls, older age, poorer health status, comorbidities, and other potential fall risk factors were predictive of imminent risk for fracture.

  17. Patient-related risk factors for periprosthetic joint infection and postoperative mortality following total hip arthroplasty in Medicare patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume 2012-05-01 Costs and economics

    The purpose of this study was to identify the specific patient comorbidities that are associated with an increased risk of periprosthetic joint infection and of ninety-day postoperative mortality in U.S. Results Comorbid conditions associated with an increased adjusted risk of periprosthetic joint infection (in decreasing order of significance, p < 0.05 for all comparisons) were rheumatologic disease (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.71), obesity (HR = 1.73), coagulopathy (HR = 1.58), and preoperative anemia (HR = 1.36).

  18. Utilization patterns of ambulatory medical care before and after the diagnosis of dementia in Germany--results of a case-control study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2010-06-03 Digital health tools

    Service utilization by demented patients increases already within the year before the first diagnosis and stays on a relatively high level within the year after.

  19. Adverse outcomes associated with inappropriate drug use in nursing homes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. The Annals of pharmacotherapy 2005-01-25 Digital health tools

    Inappropriate drug use was common in our study cohort.

  20. Alzheimer's disease and related dementias increase costs of comorbidities in managed Medicare

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 2002-01-01 Costs and economics

    In this study, prevalence rates for ADRD mirrored population estimates.

  21. Global Research Landscapes and Emerging Trends in Music Therapy for Older Adults: A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. F1000Res 2026-08-24 Health systems and care delivery

    Research on music therapy for older adults is a rapidly expanding and involves strong global collaboration.

  22. How international experts would define advance care planning: a content analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Annals of palliative medicine 2024-09-20 End-of-life care

    Planning for future medical treatment, and care, referred to as advance care planning (ACP), has evolved to a focus on conversations that explore values and preferences in a broad sense.

  23. Social Loneliness in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment: Predictive Factors and Associated Clinical Characteristics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2024 Risk factors

    The predictors of the Social Loneliness factors were as follows; 1) perceived social support (R2 = 0.33): Neuroticism (β= 0.353), depression (β= 0.205), and perceived health (β= 0.133); 2) social participation (R2 = 0.24): Conscientiousness (β= -0.344) and Extraversion (β= -0.263); 3) use of communication technologies (R2 = 0.44): age (β= 0.409), type of cohabitation (β= 0.331), cognitive reserve (β= -0.303), and Conscientiousness (β= -0.247); all p < 0.05.

  24. Information and Advance Care Directives for End-of-Life Residents with and without Dementia in Nursing Homes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) 2023-01-26 End-of-life care

    A total of 54.4% of the residents with dementia had been provided with information about their state of health, compared to 92.5% of the residents without dementia (p < 0.01); family members exhibited no differences regarding information (p = 0.658), regardless of whether the resident was cognitively impaired.

  25. Prevalence of Comorbid Dementia in Late-life Depression and Bipolar Disorder: A Retrospective Inpatient Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports 2022-09-24 Risk factors

    A total of 66 patients with MDD (n = 50) and BD (n = 16) were analyzed.

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