Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0). Tap a score to see what makes it up.
Highest usefulness score first. Studies without a score come last.
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Further investigations are needed to elaborate how the concept of a key contact person could be integrated with existing case management approaches and how the independence and autonomy of people with dementia can be strengthened when formal care needs to be accessed and used.
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Depression symptoms were observed in 33.8% of LTCF residents.
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Less than half of the nursing home residents (39.2%) had advance directives and most (96.4%) had been completed by family surrogates.
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Our results revealed relatively equal reliance on home care (HC) and facility-based residential care (RC) as starting points.
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The mean concordance between patient wishes and the clinical team decisions was significantly higher post-intervention (post = 91.9%, 95% CI = 87.8, 96.1, vs. pre = 52.4%, 95% CI = 41.9, 62.9; p <0.001).
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Algorithms developed from health administrative data are sensitive and specific for identifying older adults with AD-RD.
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HI in older adults is associated with increased mortality, independent of demographics and cardiovascular risk factors.
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Both low diastolic and high systolic pressure are associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer disease and dementia in this elderly population.
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Dementia is often unrecognized and undocumented in private practice settings.
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25 (21.6%) of the 116 patients living at home were admitted to residential or nursing home care during the follow-up year.
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The NPI-D provides a reliable and valid measure of subjective caregiver distress in relation to neuropsychiatric symptoms measured by the NPI.
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The age-adjusted prevalence rates of dementia (2.29%) and Alzheimer's disease (1.41%) in the Ibadan sample were significantly lower than those in the Indianapolis sample, both in the community-dwelling subjects alone (4.82% and 3.69%, respectively) and in the combined nursing home and community samples (8.24% and 6.24%, respectively).
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The prevalence of low vision in the Medicare population was 994/100,000 and increased significantly with age, Black (1,854/100,000) or Hispanic (2,862/100,000) race/ethnicity, female gender (1,181/100,000), and Medicaid eligibility (2,975/100,000).
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The number (%) of participants with frailty were 51 (9.1).
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This is the first study adopting the multiphase optimisation strategy to identify the most active and engaging components of a psychological intervention for caregivers of patients with dementia.
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Four major themes emerged: Methods of Support, Cultural Expectations and Varying Family Contributions, Lack of Self-Care, and Awareness.
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48/100
Three themes were identified; 1) intersectionality in the Korean American caregiver experience, 2) complex family dynamics, and 3) dementia care barriers and caregiver support needs.
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Ten themes were organized into two categories.
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Most PWD (67%) met criteria for another manifestation of serious illness (24% advanced medical condition, 44% ADL impairment).
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48/100
Behavioral and social research has stressed the importance of multi-domain lifestyle interventions to prevent, delay, or remedy age-related cognitive decline among older adults at high risk for dementia.
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This study aimed to explore racial/ethnic differences in the attitudes toward Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and dementia caregiving among midlife women who were family caregivers of persons living with AD (MWPLAD) in the U.S. and examine the associations of the attitudes to their health outcomes.
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Eighty-two percent of recommendations were successfully implemented during hospitalization and included in the discharge plan.
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Among 769 randomized dyads, 73% were spousal, 14% adult child, and 13% other dyads.
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48/100
Mobile-health applications can be used to deliver timely and personalized health information to family and friends of chronically ill adults living in the community.
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We identified a cohort of 3619 incident dementia cases, 38.9% were male, and 66.9% were non-Hispanic White.
From across this topic
10 of the 1,022 studies in this topic, picked by a fixed rule (a hash of each study's address), not by score or date; each page of this list shows a different 10. The same 10 appear here every time.
- Graphic designed bedroom doors to support dementia wandering in residential care homes: Innovative practice
- Adopting a 'community of practice' between palliative and dementia care nurses
- A prognostic model for 1-year mortality in older adults after hospital discharge
- Economic Burden of Alzheimer's Disease: A Systematic Review
- Advance care planning in primary care, only for severely ill patients? A structured review
- The spectrum of behavioral changes in Alzheimer's disease
- Implications of early treatment among Medicaid patients with Alzheimer's disease
- The state of US health, 1990-2010: burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors
- Maintaining and improving mouth care for care home residents: A participatory research project
- Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Neurological Care in the United States