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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Cox proportional hazard regressions indicated that baseline characteristics including older age, White race, diabetes, incontinence, stroke, and difficulties with instrumental activities increased risk of NHP in those without dementia.
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Similar to the state of the broader intellectual disabilities field, many gaps exist in the research and treatment of mental health concerns in people with Down syndrome.
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BPSD contribute significantly to the overall costs of dementia care.
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This study used administrative data from a large health care insurer in the southeast United States to describe the utilization pattern and health care outcomes of antipsychotic drug use in community-dwelling elders with dementia.
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The QoL-AD could be used as an effective measure of the quality of life of people with dementia in residential homes.
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This study explores whether nursing home residents with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) are affected differently by facility-level risk factors of ambulatory care-sensitive (ACS) conditions, a measure of timely access to medical care.
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Although physicians, nurses and relatives are all guided by the best interest of the patient, it seems that differences in religious beliefs, perspective of the patient, and responsibility can lead to different attitudes towards end-of-life decisions.
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An analysis of interaction terms in the Cox regression model found that those individuals who utilized in-home help services earlier in their dementia caregiving careers were more likely to delay institutionalization.
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The age-adjusted death rate for the United States decreased from 845.3 deaths per 100,000 population in 2002 to 831.2 deaths per 100,000 population in 2003.
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The purpose of this study, conducted in three phases, was to develop a clinically useful observational tool (i.e., the Pain Assessment Checklist for Seniors With Limited Ability to Communicate [PACSLAC]) to assess pain in seniors with severe dementia.
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The age-adjusted death rate in 2002 for the United States decreased from 854.5 deaths per 100,000 population in 2001 to 846.8 in 2002.
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We found associations between each behavioral health measure and particular environmental design features, as well as between behavioral health measures and both resident and nonenvironmental facility variables.
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This paper examines key challenges and strategies for including older people with dementia in an ethnographic study of quality of life in institutional care settings.
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Overall, participants in the Coping With Caregiving condition reported a significant reduction in depressive symptoms, increased use of adaptive coping strategies, and a trend toward decreased use of negative coping strategies when compared with those in the Enhanced Support Group condition.
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An estimated four million individuals in the United States have Alzheimer's disease (AD).
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Measures of cognition and psychiatric symptoms, activities of daily living, and burden on carers were made over 6 months.
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Approximately 30% (4115 dollars) of the total annual cost of AD (14420 dollars) is invested in the direct management of BPSD.
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The results of the present study document that severe cognitive impairment may be considered a negative predictor of functional recovery after a period of intensive rehabilitation.
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The age-adjusted death rate for the United States decreased from 832.7 deaths per 100,000 population in 2003 to 801.0 deaths per 100,000 population in 2004.
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The family physician's holistic approach to patients forms the basis of good health care for adults with Down syndrome.
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The burden experienced by family caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer disease (AD) affects the caregivers' overall health-related quality of life (HRQOL).
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BPSD are ubiquitous in nursing home residents.
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BPSD are common in elderly people with dementia living in care environments.
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Frequency of prospective memory and retrospective memory failures was rated on a 16-item questionnaire by 862 volunteers, from five groups: patients with Alzheimer Disease (rated by carers), carers of Alzheimer Disease patients, elderly, young, and a group of married couples.
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A major tenet of gerontological practice and policy has been that community-based services relieve stress on family caregivers and delay or prevent institutionalization of frail elders.
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.
- How does palliative care fit into national health spending? A secondary analysis of trends in long-term healthcare expenditure in the United Kingdom
- How and why adult day programs influence admissions to long-term care homes for persons living with dementia: A program theory based on a realist review
- The Health and Well-Being of Older Adults with Dual Sensory Impairment (DSI) in Four Countries
- Patient-related risk factors for periprosthetic joint infection and postoperative mortality following total hip arthroplasty in Medicare patients
- How much do persons with Alzheimer's disease cost Medicare?
- Racial and ethnic differences in telemedicine use among community-dwelling older adults with dementia
- Nursing homes underreport antipsychotic prescribing
- An online multidomain lifestyle intervention to prevent cognitive decline in at-risk older adults: a randomized controlled trial
- Comprehensive Older Adult and Caregiver Help (COACH): A person-centered caregiver intervention prevents elder mistreatment
- Assessment and diagnosis of dementia in Hispanic and non-Hispanic white outpatients