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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Psychotic/behavioral, depressive and minimally symptomatic clusters differed for caregiver burden and lack of insight.
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Three types of communication were identified: staff to staff, staff to resident, and staff to family.
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You have been called to the emergency room to evaluate an elderly nursing home patient sent for consultation who has ischemic gangrene of the right foot.
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Research on the impact of the built environment in long-term care settings continues to grow.
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36% of practitioners reported not having used therapies for medical conditions other than dementia in patients with AD for reasons of limited compliance in these patients.
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Principles of diffusion of innovation were used to change care provided to people with dementia in 9 nursing homes.
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Palliative care is mostly restricted to the terminal phase of incurable illness.
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Major depressive disorder is a potentially debilitating condition that often is unrecognized or undertreated in the elderly.
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Change in quality of life was better in facilities that used a specialized worker approach, trained more staff in more domains central to dementia care, and encouraged activity participation.
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This article describes the prevalence, assessment, and treatment of, as well as characteristics associated with, mobility limitation in 343 residents with dementia in 45 assisted living facilities and nursing homes.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between spiritual well-being and caregiver burden in family caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's disease.
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This article focuses on diagnostic and nosologic challenges intrinsic to geriatric depression, including characteristics interfering with symptom and syndrome ascertainment, the impact of medical and cognitive disorders, the usefulness of screening instruments, and barriers imposed by treatment settings.
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SAS PROC MIXED analysis showed burden to be associated with caregiver age, length of time involved in caregiving, custodial units, involvement in hands-on care, and expectations for care.
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over 90% of the homes had high quality scores on at least two measures.
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The association between caregiver's stress and depressive symptoms, and sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of Alzheimer's patients and caregivers was evaluated in 63 primary caregivers consecutively recruited at the Alzheimer's Dementia Research and Care Unit of Brescia, northern Italy.
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This article examines transitions between the community and nursing homes among the private pay and the Medicaid eligible older (65+) persons.
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The new CPS provides a functional view of cognitive performance, using readily available MDS data.
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Spouse-caregivers of Alzheimer's disease patients were randomly assigned to either a treatment group (individual and family counseling, support group participation, and ad hoc consultation) or a control group (only routine support).
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A study of 127 informal caregivers of Alzheimer's disease patients in Florida's Tampa Bay area was undertaken to determine the correlates of the five components of burden, as measured by the Cost of Care Index, a multidimensional measure of caregiving burden.
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This article describes the public health impact of Alzheimer's disease (AD), including incidence and prevalence, mortality rates, costs of care, and the overall impact on caregivers and society.
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The ESPEN Guideline on Ethical Aspects of Artificial Nutrition and Hydration is focused on the adult patient and provides a critical summary for physicians and caregivers.
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People with neurological conditions such as Parkinson's disease and dementia are known to have difficulties in language and communication.
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The number of US adults ages sixty-five and older who are living with dementia is substantial and expected to grow, raising concerns about the demands that will be placed on family members and other unpaid caregivers.
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The Unmet Needs Model states that problem behaviors of people with dementia result from unmet needs stemming from a decreased ability to communicate those needs and to provide for oneself.
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Agitation is not only a frequent and disturbing behavior for many patients with dementia, but it also troubles their caregivers and families.
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.
- Palliative Care in Huntington Disease: Personal Reflections and a Review of the Literature
- Determinants of carer stress in Alzheimer's disease
- Early Cognitive Decline and its Impact on Spouse's Loneliness
- Predicting imminent risk for fracture in patients aged 50 or older with osteoporosis using US claims data
- What Do Care Staff Know About Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia? A Mixed- Methods Study in Long-Term Care
- Deaths in the United States among persons with Alzheimer's disease (2010-2050)
- The Relationship Between States' Staffing Regulations And Hospitalizations Of Assisted Living Residents
- Black-White Disparities in Moves to Assisted Living and Nursing Homes Among Older Medicare Beneficiaries
- Association of Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment With ICU Admission Among Patients Hospitalized Near the End of Life
- Prognostication in dementia