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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A method for assessing affect states among older people with Alzheimer's disease was developed for use in a study designed to evaluate a special care unit for such residents of a nursing home.
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Strictly following all advance directives may not truly reflect patients' preferences.
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When people are asked to imagine themselves incompetent with a poor prognosis, they decide against life-sustaining treatments about 70 percent of the time.
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The rapid growth of the oldest age groups will have a major impact on future health care costs.
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After a baseline interview of 642 caregivers of aged Alzheimer's disease victims, half were offered formal respite care.
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Dysphagia, which is a geriatric syndrome affecting 10% to 33% of older adults, is commonly seen in older adults who have experienced a stroke or neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer or Parkinson disease.
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Recent statistics released by Alzheimer's Disease International has highlighted how prevalent dementia will become in the next couple of years.
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Depression is a frequent cause of morbidity in surgery patients suffering from a wide range of conditions.
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This study provides evidence that the increase in dementia-free life years went together with an absolute compression of life years with dementia.
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Diabetic patients have an elevated risk of dementia, and comorbidity increases this risk.
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Cost estimates did not differ significantly between CN and MCI.
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) extracts a heavy societal toll.
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The QICDSS provides a way of producing population-based data on the chronic disease burden, health services and prescription drug uses.
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Recent studies have been cautiously optimistic about declining trends in dementia prevalence and incidence.
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Only about one-third of individuals with COPD in Ontario, Canada, received PFT to confirm their diagnosis; age, comorbidity, and physician factors appear to influence its use.
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As the U.S. population ages, the burden of neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer disease and Parkinson disease, will increase substantially.
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The value of screening for cognitive impairment, including dementia and Alzheimer's disease, has been debated for decades.
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The large majority of oldest old subjects had multimorbidity.
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Dementia poses a substantial additional burden to the German social security system, with the long-term care sector being more seriously challenged than the health care sector.
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Antimicrobial treatment of suspected pneumonia episodes is associated with prolonged survival but not with improved comfort in nursing home residents with advanced dementia.
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The findings suggest that diseases affect preference-based HRQoL differently in a hospital-based LTC population compared with previous studies in the general population.
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The authors prospectively explored the consequences of hip fracture with regard to discharge placement, functional status, and mortality using the Survey on Assets and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD).
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These findings indicate that the early diagnosis and treatment of AD are not only socially desirable in terms of increasing economic efficiency, but also fiscally attractive from both state and federal perspectives.
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Some indicators imply a less than optimal quality of care (restraints, pressure sores, psychoactive drugs, and the lack of documentation of shared decision-making) and suggest that far advanced demented patients are not fully perceived as "terminal."
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When caring for people with severe Alzheimer's disease (AD), the concept of the person being central is increasingly advocated in clinical practice and academia as an approach to deliver high-quality care.
From across this topic
9 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 9. The same 9 appear here every time.
- The global macroeconomic burden of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias: estimates and projections for 152 countries or territories
- Postacute Care and Long-term Care for LGBTQ+ Older Adults
- Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Dual-Function Life Expectancy
- Change in Social Engagement among Incident Caregivers and Controls: Findings from the Caregiving Transitions Study
- Social Isolation and Incident Dementia in the Oldest-Old-A Competing Risk Analysis
- Risk Factors for Nursing Home Placement in Older Adults With and Without Dementia
- Smoking Characteristics of Adults With Selected Lifetime Mental Illnesses: Results From the 2007 National Health Interview Survey
- Vision Impairment and Risk of Dementia: Findings from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
- Ageing without dementia: can stimulating psychosocial and lifestyle experiences make a difference?