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Health services, long-term care and technology

1,022 studies in this group. A computer grouped them by what their titles and summaries are about, not by a hand-made list. The name describes most of the group, not every study in it.

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. Research attitudes mediate the association between educational attainment and willingness to participate in Alzheimer’s disease research beyond Alzheimer’s disease knowledge

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-15 Prevention trials

    STRUCTURED ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION This study examined the extent to which educational attainment, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) knowledge, and research attitudes are associated with willingness to participate in AD research, and whether AD knowledge and research attitudes mediate associations between educational attainment and willingness to participate.

  2. The Effect of Noncontingent Monetary Incentives in Recruitment Letters on Research Enrollment of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia Caregiving Dyads: A Study Within a Trial (SWAT) Randomized Controlled Trial

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-14 Clinical trials

    In this trial, $5 and $25 noncontingent monetary incentives included in mailed recruitment letters did not produce a detectable improvement in response among ADRD caregiving dyads.

  3. The Role and Future Potential of Radio, Podcasts, and YouTube in Influencing Awareness and Policy on Neurodegenerative Diseases in the Arab Gulf: A Focus on Oman, Qatar, UAE, and Saudi Arabia

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Preprints.org 2026-10-14 Risk factors

    The increasing prevalence of neurodegenerative diseases (NDs), especially Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, is a major public health concern in the Gulf countries (GCs) due to the rapid increase in life expectancy and population aging.

  4. Caregiving experiences of older-adult informal family caregivers for older adults with comorbid dementia and physical disability: A qualitative study using the caregiving stress-process model

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-14 Risk factors

    Five core themes and fifteen corresponding sub-themes were extracted from interview transcripts: (1) Structural caregiving context, including family structural constraints, the influence of filial piety culture, and insufficient aged-care supply; (2) Multiple caregiving stressors, covering primary care burden, independent care decision-making pressure, restricted social engagement, and intra-family conflicts; (3) Limited buffering support resources, involving inadequate formal care services, insufficient informal assistance from relatives, and individual psychological coping strategies; (4) Negative caregiving experiences, including persistent physical exhaustion and sustained emotional depletion; (5) Dual perceptions of caregiving outcomes, consisting of emotional gains from kinship bonding, resistance to institutional care, and long-term anxiety about future care arrangements.

  5. Cultural and linguistic adaptation of a personalised post-diagnostic dementia intervention for Bangladeshi families in the UK: an iterative adaptation study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-14 Caregiving

    People from UK South Asian communities experience barriers to accessing dementia care.

  6. Family physicians' attitudes toward people with dementia and their association with empathy

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-14 Health systems and care delivery

    Family physicians' empathy levels were independently associated with general, supportive, and accepting attitudes toward people with dementia, but not with exclusionary attitudes.

  7. Visit-to-Visit Blood Pressure Variability, Glycemic Status and the Risk of Dementia, Stroke, and All-Cause Mortality: A UK Biobank Cohort Study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-13 Risk factors

    Absolute BPV was associated with mortality, and DBP and MAP variability with overall stroke, after accounting for glycemic status and mean blood pressure.

  8. Short-Horizon Metrics and the Persistence of Capacity-Debiting Practices in Nursing Homes

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Preprints.org 2026-10-13 Clinical safety

    Interventions that reduce functional capacity — antipsychotics or benzodiazepines for agitation, activity restriction for fall prevention, prolonged bed rest, incontinence product use, and catheterization — remain common in nursing homes even though functional decline is measured, publicly reported, and built into Five-Star ratings.

  9. Enhancing Neurodegeneration Awareness and Care for the Elderly in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, and Qatar: Challenges, Policy Gaps, and Future Directions

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Preprints.org 2026-10-13 How common it is

    GCC countries are experiencing a rapid demographic transition.

  10. Social participation diversity and cognitive trajectories in older adults with hypertension and diabetes: a longitudinal cohort study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-12 Prevention trials

    Greater diversity of social participation was associated with better long-term cognitive maintenance among older adults with hypertension and/or diabetes.

  11. The influence of cognitive decline on the severity and quantity of drug-drug interactions

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-11 Risk factors

    These findings indicate that cognitive impairment may mark a population vulnerable to medication complexity rather than independently driving DDI risk, with polypharmacy emerging as the principal modifiable determinant.

  12. Electronic Health Record-Based Machine Learning Models for Predicting Revascularization, Amputation, and Cardiovascular Mortality in At-Risk Patients

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-11 Digital health tools

    Patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD), chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI), and/or diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) are at increased risk for limb loss and death.

  13. Navigating Life After Dementia Diagnosis: Questions, Challenges, and Support Needs Among Dementia Dyads

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-09 Risk factors

    Dementia dyads experience substantial informational, emotional, and practical support needs in the early stages of MCI and AD/ADRD.

  14. The transition to retirement and dementia risk: An application of sequence analysis

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-09 Long-term cohort studies

    Retirement timing alone showed limited association with later-life dementia risk, whereas sustained part-time employment and disability-related trajectories were more strongly associated with dementia risk.

  15. Perceived Barriers for Advance Care Planning Among People with Dementia and Family Caregivers: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Preprints.org 2026-10-07 End-of-life care

    Two analytical themes were identified: (1) challenges in preserving the person's voice throughout the dementia trajectory, reflecting a shift toward caregiver-mediated decision-making, assumptions about capacity, and delayed ACP initiation; and (2) challenges in maintaining continuity of expressed values and preferences over time, reflecting uncertainty about future care needs and the limitations of one-time ACP conversations.

  16. Person-centred care in the early post-diagnostic phase of young-onset dementia: co-created insights from service users and professionals through participatory action research

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-06 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Realising PCC in YOD requires not only identifying individual needs and appropriate care components, but also ongoing alignment of changing needs, expectations, timing, and responsibilities across the care trajectory.

  17. What Do Care Staff Know About Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia? A Mixed- Methods Study in Long-Term Care

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-06 Risk factors

    Mean scores were 23.45/30 (78.2%) for general Alzheimer’s disease knowledge and 13.75/18 (76.4%) for BPSD knowledge; the scores were moderately correlated (ρ = .598, p < .001).

  18. Mobile Clinics for Brain Health Equity: A Feasibility Study of Dementia Risk Reduction in Underserved Communities

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-30 Prevention trials

    Recruitment (88.0%) and protocol fidelity (100%) met or exceeded prespecified progression criteria, whereas retention and follow-up data availability were 59.1% (13/22), slightly below the predefined 60% criterion.

  19. Newly diagnosed postoperative depression and incident dementia after major surgery: a Korean nationwide retrospective cohort study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-30 Risk factors

    Newly diagnosed postoperative depression was associated with increased dementia risk, particularly in patients aged < 65 years, supporting prospective evaluation as a potential marker of long-term cognitive risk.

  20. Associations between objectively measured smartphone screen time and ikigai in community-dwelling older adults: roles of physical function and social frailty

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-29 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Although smartphone usage time is not directly associated with ikigai in older adults, it may reflect preserved physical and cognitive abilities required to navigate digital environments.

  21. Clinically Recognised Alcohol Use Disorder and Risk of Dementia Subtypes in 1.3 Million Women: A Prospective Cohort Study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-09-29 Prevention and risk

    Among 1,288,359 women, 20,070 with AUD were matched to 100,339 controls.

  22. Co-adapting the GRACE (Goal-diRected ACcessible, Equitable, Evidence-based Care) Dementia Post-diagnostic Support Intervention to Improve Inclusivity

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-29 Caregiving

    GRACE has demonstrated clinical and cost-effectiveness in trial settings, providing a strong foundation for wider implementation.

  23. Person-Centred Care: Impact on the Effectiveness of Palliative Care in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-29 End-of-life care

    The increasing prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) underscores the need for care models that preserve identity, autonomy, and comfort throughout disease progression.

  24. Expert-Derived Components of Person-Centred Nursing Intervention for People with Dementia and/or Cognitive Impairment in a Hospital Experiencing Distress

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-29 Clinical safety

    Thorough and structured assessment is essential for identifying unmet needs and managing distress in people with dementia in acute hospitals.

  25. Caregiver burden and mood changes among unpaid caregivers of older adults living with dementia

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-25 Risk factors

    Depressive and anxiety symptoms were more pronounced among caregivers with longer caregiving duration (p = 0.01; p = 0.001) and those living with the care recipient (p = 0.04; p = 0.02).

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