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  1. Population attributable fraction of modifiable risk factors for dementia in Chile

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2022-02-23 Risk factors

    The overall weighted PAF for modifiable risk factors was 45.8% (42.2% to 49.3%).

  2. Smartphone ownership and usage in Chinese- and English-speaking older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-12 Cognitive tests and assessment

    33 Chinese- and 117 English-speaking older adults who received a diagnosis of normal cognition or mild cognitive impairment at consensus were included in the data analysis.

  3. Design and Development of a Community-Based, Interdisciplinary, Collaborative Dementia Care Program

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2021-11-12 Caregiving

    Served dyads from three primary care clinics with a total of 87 dyads enrolled between December 2018 and June 2020.

  4. Feasibility of Routine Quality of Life Measurement for People Living With Dementia in Long-Term Care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2021-08-17 Health systems and care delivery

    Average time to complete DEMQOL-CH was <5 minutes.

  5. Differences in Burden Severity in Adult-Child Family Caregivers and Spousal Caregivers of Persons with Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of gerontological social work 2021-04-06 Caregiving

    Researchers are continuing to focus on the nature and sources of burden of family caregivers of persons living with dementia.

  6. Caregiver identity in care partners of persons living with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Dementia (London, England) 2021-02-17 Caregiving

    Research on caregiver identity in the context of memory impairment has focused primarily on more advanced stages of the cognitive impairment trajectory (e.g., dementia caregivers), failing to capture the complex dynamics of early caregiver identity development (e.g., MCI; mild cognitive impairment caregivers).

  7. How Do Persons with Young and Late Onset Dementia Die?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2021 End-of-life care

    Circumstances of death, symptoms, and treatment appeared to be similar between YOD and LOD, except that persons with LOD had significantly more somatic comorbidities and were admitted to hospital in the last three months of life more often than persons with LOD.

  8. [Dementia prevention and primary care: Estimation of the target population]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Fortschritte der Neurologie-Psychiatrie 2020-09-02 Risk factors

    In a sample of 2,398,405 patients receiving primary care, the target population relevant for dementia prevention measures in 2018 consisted of 191,883 patients with hypertension, 23,308 with obesity, 5,059 with hearing loss, 120,200 with diabetes and 43,233 with depression.

  9. Direct Medical Costs of Dementia With Lewy Bodies by Disease Complexity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2020-08-06 Costs and economics

    In both databases, total healthcare resource utilization and costs increased with number of core features.

  10. Piloting a Dementia Caregiver Intervention in a Primary Care Setting

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Clinical gerontologist 2020-07-18 Caregiving

    No significant effects were found for caregiver strain, depressive symptoms, and distress related to neuropsychiatric symptoms.

  11. The Functionality, Evidence, and Privacy Issues Around Smartphone Apps for the Top Neuropsychiatric Conditions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences 2020-07-16 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Eighty-three apps were reviewed (stroke, N=8; migraine, N=25; Alzheimer's disease and dementia, N=8; depression, N=7; anxiety, N=14; apps targeting depression and anxiety, N=21).

  12. A Seat at the Table: Supporting Persons with Severe Dementia in Communicating Their Preferences

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Clinical gerontologist 2020-07-07 Health systems and care delivery

    Neither assessment condition promoted significantly greater levels of consistency (i.e., the same preference rating at Time 1 and Time 2).

  13. Increasing Complexity of New Nursing Home Residents in Ontario, Canada: A Serial Cross-Sectional Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2020-03-02 Digital health tools

    Admission trends show that new residents were older and had greater multimorbidity and limitations in physical functioning over time.

  14. Cost-Effective Care Coordination for People With Dementia at Home

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Innovation in aging 2020-01-01 Costs and economics

    The average cost per enrollee per month was $110, or $1,320 per annum.

  15. Palliative Care in a Community-Based Serious-Illness Care Program

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of palliative medicine 2019-10-23 End-of-life care

    Patients were seen in an 18-month time frame (n = 159).

  16. Systematic Multi-Domain Alzheimer's Risk Reduction Trial (SMARRT): Study Protocol

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019 Prevention trials

    This article describes the protocol for the Systematic Multi-domain Alzheimer's Risk Reduction Trial (SMARRT), a single-blind randomized pilot trial to test a personalized, pragmatic, multi-domain Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk reduction intervention in a US integrated healthcare delivery system.

  17. Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Urinary Incontinence in Home Hospice Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. European urology 2018-10-25 End-of-life care

    Urinary incontinence (UI) is a debilitating and embarrassing condition that is prevalent among aging males and females.

  18. High Burden of Palliative Care Needs of Older Adults During Emergency Major Abdominal Surgery

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2018-09-24 End-of-life care

    Of 411 participants, 57% had high illness burden.

  19. Death, Depression, Disability, and Dementia Associated With Self-reported Hearing Problems: A 25-Year Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2018-09-01 Risk factors

    Our study confirms the strong link between hearing status and the risk of disability, dementia, and depression.

  20. Computerized Cognitive Testing in Primary Care: A Qualitative Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2018 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Computerized cognitive assessment tools may facilitate early identification of dementia in the primary care setting.

  21. Neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer's disease: associations with caregiver burden and treatment outcomes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. QJM : monthly journal of the Association of Physicians 2017-09-01 Caregiving

    The mean follow-up interval was 25.0 ± 12.2 months, and two patients died during follow-up.

  22. Emergency Department Use Among Older Adults With Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2016-01-01 Costs and economics

    Although persons with dementia are frequently hospitalized, relatively little is known about the health profile, patterns of health care use, and mortality rates for patients with dementia who access care in the emergency department (ED).

  23. Costs, Staffing, and Services of Assisted Living in the United States: A Literature Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The health care manager 2016 Health systems and care delivery

    Assisted-living facilities (ALFs), which provide a community for residents who require assistance throughout their day, are an important part of the long-term-care system in the United States.

  24. Feasibility and validity of the self-administered computerized assessment of mild cognitive impairment with older primary care patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2014-10-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    We investigated whether a validated computerized cognitive test, the Computerized Assessment of Mild Cognitive Impairment (CAMCI), could be independently completed by older primary care patients.

  25. Prevalence of dementia in nursing home and community-dwelling older adults in Germany

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Aging clinical and experimental research 2014-03-20 Digital health tools

    More than half of nursing home residents suffer from dementia, which is about 19-fold higher than the prevalence in insured living in the community.

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