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Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0). Tap a score to see what makes it up.

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  1. Balance and strength training in older adults: intervention gains and Tai Chi maintenance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 1996-05-01 Digital health tools

    Randomized control intervention.

  2. Delirium and incident nursing home admission among people with and without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Age and ageing 2026-05-03 Health systems and care delivery

    Delirium was associated with a higher risk of nursing home admission in participants without dementia (SHR 1.23, 95% CI 1.14-1.34) and with pre-existing dementia (SHR 1.22, 95% CI 1.07-1.38).

  3. Economic Impact of Dementia After Kidney Transplantation: A Matched Cohort Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Clinical transplantation 2025-06 Costs and economics

    Dementia was diagnosed at a mean of 5.1 ± 3.4 years post-KTx.

  4. Hospice Quality, Race, and Disenrollment in Hospice Enrollees With Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Journal of palliative medicine 2023-04-03 Disparities

    The sample included 673,102 PWD (mean age 86, 66% female, 85% White, 7.3% Black, 6.3% Hispanic, 1.6% AAPI) enrolled in 4371 hospices nationwide.

  5. Advance care planning among Medicare beneficiaries with dementia undergoing surgery

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2021-05-20 Costs and economics

    ACP billing codes from 6 months before to 6 months after admission for inpatient surgery.

  6. Implementation of Specialist Palliative Care and Outcomes for Hospitalized Patients with Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2021-02-01 End-of-life care

    During the study period, 82,118 patients with dementia (mean (SD) age, 83.04 (10.04), 51,170 (62.21%) female) underwent an acute hospitalization, of which 41,227 (50.27%) received care in hospitals that implemented a palliative care program.

  7. A single number for advocacy and communication—worldwide more than 850 million individuals have kidney diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2019-07-29 Risk factors

    As a result, kidney disease has been largely overlooked by health authorities and governments in most countries [9].

  8. Do We Need to Rethink the Epidemiology and Healthcare Utilization of Parkinson's Disease in Germany?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2018-06-29 Digital health tools

    Epidemiological aspects of Parkinson's disease (PD), co-occurring diseases and medical healthcare utilization of PD patients are still largely elusive.

  9. A Systematic Review of Dementia-related Stigma Research: Can We Move the Stigma Dial?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2017-09-12 Disparities

    Stigma negatively affects individuals with cognitive impairment and dementia.

  10. Hearing Impairment and Incident Dementia: Findings from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2017-07-22 Risk factors

    Older adults with hearing loss are at greater risk of dementia than those with normal hearing.

  11. Hearing Impairment Affects Dementia Incidence. An Analysis Based on Longitudinal Health Claims Data in Germany

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. PloS one 2016-07-08 Digital health tools

    Recent research has revealed an association between hearing impairment and dementia.

  12. Mortality in long-term care residents: retrospective national cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. BMJ supportive & palliative care 2025-12-23 Health systems and care delivery

    Of 23 892 individuals moving-in to care homes, 20 250 (84.8%) died by 31 May 2020.

  13. Dementia and communication comorbidities within the context of caregiver support systems: a scoping review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. BMC geriatrics 2025-12-04 Caregiving

    A total of 228 articles were screened at the title and abstract levels, and 120 full-text articles were assessed for eligibility. 23 eligible studies were included in the narrative synthesis.

  14. Emotion regulation strategies to improve outcomes in family caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias: A systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Journal of health psychology 2025-08-17 Caregiving

    Interventions for family caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) incorporate diverse elements, but drivers of success are unclear.

  15. Modifiable risk factors for stroke, dementia and late-life depression: a systematic review and DALY-weighted risk factors for a composite outcome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2025-05-14 Risk factors

    Our search yielded 182 meta-analyses meeting the inclusion criteria, of which 59 were selected to calculate DALY-weighted risk factors for a composite outcome.

  16. Medicare Payments and ACOs for Dementia Patients Across Race and Social Vulnerability

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2024-07-02 Disparities

    Among those newly diagnosed, Black and Hispanic patients encountered higher total costs compared to White patients, and ADRD patients living in the most vulnerable areas experienced the highest total costs compared to patients living in other regions.

  17. Enablers and Barriers to Hearing aid Use in People Living With Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society 2024-01-18 Risk factors

    Hearing loss is highly prevalent in dementia; however, people with dementia are less likely to use hearing aids consistently than people with intact cognition are.

  18. Social Isolation and Incident Dementia in the Oldest-Old-A Competing Risk Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Frontiers in psychiatry 2022-06-10 Risk factors

    Excluding participants with prevalent dementia, n = 1,161 individuals were included.

  19. The application of technology to improve cognition in older adults: A review and suggestions for future directions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. PsyCh journal 2022-06-08 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The rapidly increasing worldwide population of older adults, along with the increasing prevalence of cognitive impairment and dementia in this population, is a growing health-care problem.

  20. Adherence to the Mediterranean diet and incident frailty: Results from a longitudinal study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Maturitas 2022-05-07 Prevention and risk

    176 and 131 participants developed incident frailty, as measured with the FI and TFI respectively.

  21. Home, but Not Homebound: A Prospective Analysis of Persons Living With Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2022-01-19 Health systems and care delivery

    20% of individuals with newly identified dementia were homebound and this group was more functionally impaired, medically complex, and socioeconomically disadvantaged as compared to the non-homebound.

  22. Diabetes duration and the risk of dementia: a cohort study based on German health claims data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Age and ageing 2022-01-01 Digital health tools

    We identified a non-linear association of type 2 diabetes duration and the risk of dementia.

  23. Cohort Profile: The Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. International Journal of Epidemiology 2021-12-13 Costs and economics

    LASI is India’s first ageing study and the world’s largest in terms of sample size, and will provide comprehensive longitudinal data for designing policies and programmes targeted toward the overall well-being of the older population.

  24. Age-Related Hearing Loss, Late-Life Depression, and Risk for Incident Dementia in Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2021-04-01 Risk factors

    Both HL and depression are independent risk factors for eventual conversion to dementia.

  25. Social Connectivity is Related to Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2021 Risk factors

    Among 952 participants (mean age at first neuropsychological assessment = 69±8 years, 62% women, 17% Black, 13% white, 68% Hispanic), 24% developed MCI/dementia.

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