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  1. Smartphone technology for fostering goal-directed ambulation and object use in people with moderate Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology 2019-11-15 Cognitive tests and assessment

    During baseline, the mean frequency of correct target responses was virtually zero.

  2. Insomnia in Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Current geriatrics reports 2019-10-22 Risk factors

    Insomnia is associated with socioeconomic status, racial and ethnic classification, family relationships, medical and mental health disorders, cognitive function, and dementia.

  3. Economic burden for Alzheimer's disease in China from 2010 to 2050: a modelling study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of market access & health policy 2019-09-26 Costs and economics

    The costs of AD were estimated to be from around 91 billion RMB in 2010 to 332 billion in 2050.

  4. Care Home Life and Identity: A Qualitative Case Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. The Gerontologist 2019-07-16 Health systems and care delivery

    Four themes were identified: (a) changing with age, (b) independence and autonomy, (c) bounded identity, and (d) social comparison.

  5. The Real-World Medicare Costs of Alzheimer Disease: Considerations for Policy and Care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy 2019-07 Costs and economics

    This study found that 40% of deceased beneficiaries have Alzheimer disease or unspecified dementia diagnoses in their claims history.

  6. Exploring Disasters through the Eyes of Residential Nursing Home Caregivers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Social work in public health 2019-06-28 Health systems and care delivery

    Using qualitative interviews, this research explores the experiences of residential nursing home caregivers in Fukushima, who provided support to elderly sufferers of Alzheimer's or other related forms of dementia during the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.

  7. Caregiver preparedness for death in dementia: an evaluation of existing tools

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Aging & mental health 2019-05-30 End-of-life care

    Authors extracted 569 tools from articles, retaining seven tools for evaluation.

  8. Smartphone-Based Interventions to Foster Simple Activity and Personal Satisfaction in People With Advanced Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias 2019-04-23 Cognitive tests and assessment

    All participants had significant increases in independent response frequencies, level of personal satisfaction, and heart rates during program sessions as opposed to baseline or control sessions.

  9. Multicomponent exercise and the hallmarks of frailty: Considerations on cognitive impairment and acute hospitalization

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Experimental gerontology 2019-04-14 Prevention trials

    Frailty syndrome encompasses several physical hallmarks such as loss of muscle strength, power output and mass, which leads to poor gait ability, fatigue, falls and overall difficulty to perform activities of daily living.

  10. The Forgotten

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. The American journal of hospice & palliative care 2019-04-08 End-of-life care

    In this narrative, a third-year medical student recounts an experience with a patient she had while accompanying hospice and palliative workers on home visits.

  11. Prescribing physical activity as a preventive measure for middle-aged Australians with dementia risk factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Australian journal of primary health 2019-04 Prevention trials

    Dementia is increasing in Australia in line with population ageing and is expected to peak by mid-century.

  12. Effect of Patients' Life Stories in Bringing Meaning to Nursing Home Care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. PRiMER (Leawood, Kan.) 2019-03-29 Health systems and care delivery

    Participants found nursing home care challenging, particularly for patients who were nonverbal due to advanced dementia, because they had difficulties forming meaningful relationships or discussing medical decisions with their patients.

  13. Medicare expenditures attributable to dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Health services research 2019-03-13 Costs and economics

    Dementia's five-year incremental cost to the traditional Medicare program is approximately $15 700 per patient, nearly half of which is incurred in the first year after diagnosis.

  14. Dementia and Parkinson's Disease: Similar and Divergent Challenges in Providing Palliative Care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2019-03-11 End-of-life care

    Dementia and Parkinson's disease are incurable neurological conditions.

  15. Advance care plans in dementia: user-centred design

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. BMJ supportive & palliative care 2019-02-08 End-of-life care

    Nine cyclical stages were undertaken to achieve the outcome of an ACP guide and template.

  16. Risk of caregiver burden in patients with three types of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2019-01 Caregiving

    Liu et al. (2017) investigated caregiver burden of patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), which was compared with caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's disease.

  17. Palliative medicine and end-of-life care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Handbook of clinical neurology 2019 End-of-life care

    Palliative care is an approach to the care of patients, affected by serious illness, and their families that aims to reduce suffering through the management of medical symptoms, psychosocial issues, spiritual well-being, and setting goals of care.

  18. Mediators of burden and depression in dementia family caregivers: Kinship differences

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Dementia (London, England) 2018-12-20 Caregiving

    Perceived burden was directly and significantly related to depression for both spouse caregivers and adult child caregivers.

  19. Multidomain Lifestyle Intervention Strategies for the Delay of Cognitive Impairment in Healthy Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Nutrients 2018-10-21 Prevention trials

    Present demographic changes demonstrate that the number of elderly people is growing at a frenetic pace.

  20. Research on caregiver stress: time for integration and application

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2018-08 Caregiving

    Over the past two decades, caregiver stress has been the subject of scientific inquiry by investigators around the world representing a variety of disciplines.

  21. Dementia Care at End of Life: Current Approaches

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Current psychiatry reports 2018-06-23 End-of-life care

    Improved and earlier advanced care planning for persons with dementia and their caregivers can help delineate goals of care and prepare for the inevitable complications of end-stage dementia.

  22. Chronic Stress, Social Isolation, and Perceived Loneliness in Dementia Caregivers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of psychosocial nursing and mental health services 2018-04-19 Risk factors

    Caregivers of individuals with dementia are at risk for chronic stress and social isolation.

  23. Recognition of the complexity facing residential care homes: a practitioner inquiry

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Primary health care research & development 2018-02-15 Health systems and care delivery

    AimTo explore the experiences and challenges for residential care home staff when managing the healthcare needs of their residents, in particular those living with dementia.

  24. Will Changes to Medicare Payment Rates Alter Hospice's Cost-Saving Ability?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of palliative medicine 2018-02-07 Costs and economics

    Medicare costs were reduced from hospice election until death using both 2009-2010 and new 2016 payment structures and rates.

  25. Hearing aids: indications, technology, adaptation, and quality control

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. GMS current topics in otorhinolaryngology, head and neck surgery 2017-12-18 Risk factors

    Hearing loss can be caused by a number of different pathological conditions.

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