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  1. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Advance Care Planning: Assessing the Role of Subjective Life Expectancy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 2022-08-11 Disparities

    Black and Hispanic older adults have significantly lower rates of ACP relative to Whites.

  2. Quality of end-of-life nursing home care in dementia: relatives' perceptions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. BMJ supportive & palliative care 2022-06-16 Health systems and care delivery

    In total, 208 (response rate2010: 51.05%, response rate2015=60.65%) bereaved relatives responded to the questionnaire.

  3. Trends in US Medicare Decedents' Diagnosis of Dementia From 2004 to 2017

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. JAMA health forum 2022-04-01 Costs and economics

    Among the included 3 515 329 Medicare fee-for-service decedents, when adjusted for age and sex, the percentage of older decedents with an ADRD diagnosis increased from 34.7% in 2004 to 47.2% in 2017.

  4. Health Care Utilization and Out-of-Pocket Payments among Elderly with Cognitive Frailty in Malaysia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. International journal of environmental research and public health 2022-03-13 Costs and economics

    In total, 1006 elderly were interviewed, with a 66.18% response rate.

  5. The relationship between social isolation and anxiety in people with cognitive impairment in the United States

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2022-02 Risk factors

    We observed that greater social isolation was related to increased anxiety in people with cognitive impairment (coefficients = 0.7242, t = 2.51, p = 0.015), adjusting for severity of cognitive impairment, race, pain, depression, activities of daily living, and instrumental activities of daily living.

  6. Positive Psychosocial Factors and Cognitive Decline in Ethnically Diverse Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS 2020-08-25 Disparities

    Higher NIH Toolbox Friendship scores predicted less episodic memory decline.

  7. Characteristics and Outcomes of Dementia Patients Who Receive Inpatient Palliative Care Consultation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2020-05-16 End-of-life care

    Among 927 hospitalized patients with dementia, 17% received IPCC (N = 157).

  8. Telehealth Home Support During COVID-19 Confinement for Community-Dwelling Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment or Mild Dementia: Survey Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2020-05-12 Risk factors

    Of the respondents, 60/93 (65%) were women.

  9. Mobility and cognition at admission to the nursing home - a cross-sectional study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. BMC geriatrics 2018-01-30 Health systems and care delivery

    Forty-three percent of the residents were not able to perform the balance test in SPPB.

  10. Burden among Family Caregivers of Dementia in the Oldest-Old: An Exploratory Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Frontiers in medicine 2017-11-22 Caregiving

    Oldest-old care recipients were more impaired in cognitive function and instrumental ADL; there was no difference in behavior and basic ADL.

  11. Computerized cognitive training for older diabetic adults at risk of dementia: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2017-11-10 Cognitive tests and assessment

    This pilot study is the first trial evaluating the potential benefits of home-based tailored and adaptive CCT in relation to cognitive and disease self-management in older diabetic adults.

  12. Multidimensional determinants of family caregiver burden in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2015-04-08 Caregiving

    The study results identified that dementia-related factors were the most significant factors, representing 25.6% of caregiver burden and were followed by caregiving-related factors explaining caregiver burden significantly.

  13. Increased risk of dementia in people with previous exposure to general anesthesia: a nationwide population-based case-control study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2013-07-27 Digital health tools

    A history of previous exposure to surgery under GA might be associated with an increased risk of dementia, particularly in subjects who have undergone repeated exposure to GA.

  14. The triple challenges associated with age-related comorbidities in Down syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR 2013-03-19 Risk factors

    Further detailed investigations into the development and treatment of comorbidities across the lifespan are needed for a successful longitudinal approach to healthcare in people with Down syndrome.

  15. Potentially avoidable hospitalizations among Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2013-01-01 Digital health tools

    Medicare beneficiaries with ADRD were at a higher risk of PAHs for certain uncontrolled comorbidities and incurred higher Medicare expenditures compared with matched controls without dementia.

  16. 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.

  17. Monitoring visual status: why patients do or do not comply with practice guidelines

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Health services research 2004-10-01 Digital health tools

    Having an exam reflects multiple factors.

  18. The impact of comorbid disease and injuries on resource use and expenditures in parkinsonism

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2003-01-01 Costs and economics

    Comorbidity associated with parkinsonism is an under-recognized contribution to higher resource use and expenditures.

  19. Utility scores for chronic conditions in a community-dwelling population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. PharmacoEconomics 1999-04-01 Disease mechanisms

    This study provides health economists, researchers and policy-makers with a reference for health utilities of various chronic conditions, different age groups, gender and comorbidities.

  20. Determinants of carer stress in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 1998-04-01 Risk factors

    The findings confirm that the non-cognitive features of Alzheimer's disease are stressful for carers and indicate specific relationships between mood-related and behavioural signs of depression, walking and sleep disruptions and hallucinations in patients and adverse carer outcomes.

  21. Prevalence and incidence of health problems in people with intellectual disability

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR 1997-02-01 Risk factors

    The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and incidence of the most frequent chronic health problems in relation to age in people with intellectual disabilities living in residential facilities in the Netherlands.

  22. Use of tube feeding to prevent aspiration pneumonia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. The Lancet 1996-11-01 Costs and economics

    In the US Medicare programme more than 75 000 percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tubes were placed during 1991, most of them in patients with head and neck cancer or neurogenic dysphagia due to dementia or stroke.

  23. In 78 participants, discomfort levels were monitored during palliative sedation.

  24. Acceptance of Unsupervised App-Based Cognitive Assessment in Outpatient Care: An Implementation Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. JMIR formative research 2025-02-13 Cognitive tests and assessment

    We received completed questionnaires from physicians for 45 patients.

  25. Feasibility and acceptability of virtual programs for people with dementia and their caregivers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. BMC geriatrics 2024-09-25 Risk factors

    The PWD and ICG interviews provided insight into the positive impacts of VP, challenges of VP, program barriers, program facilitating factors, and suggestions for future improvement for the OSCC55 + VPs.

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