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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.

Highest usefulness score first. Studies without a score come last.

  1. When Insomnia Becomes an Economic Disease: Linking Phenotype, Comorbidity, Treatment, and Societal Cost—An Evidence-Based Narrative Review

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Preprints.org 2026-09-24 Risk factors

    Insomnia disorder affects approximately 10–20% of adults and is usually chronic.

  2. Knowledge predicts attitudes toward dementia among hospital nurses in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-22 Clinical safety

    Nurses showed moderate knowledge and positive attitudes, with knowledge closely linked to attitudes.

  3. EHR-Enabled Alzheimer’s Disease Care Pathways in Primary Care: Results from a Multisite Implementation Pilot

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-14 Getting a diagnosis

    Implementation of an EHR-enabled AD care pathway was associated with improved adoption of guideline-concordant cognitive assessment and recommended diagnostic evaluation in primary care across three health systems.

  4. Efficacy of care management in reducing needs of caregivers of people with dementia

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-10 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Our study delivers ambivalent results for the efficacy of care management for caregivers.

  5. Development and feasibility of a theory-driven multidomain intervention for community-dwelling older adults with mild cognitive impairment: a quasi-experimental pilot study based on the Multi-Theory Model

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-10 Prevention trials

    Forty participants completed the study (intervention, n = 21; control, n = 19).

  6. Risk factors for Dementia Public Stigma in Zhejiang Province, China: A Cross-Sectional Study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-07 Getting a diagnosis

    Dementia public stigma was associated with education, dementia knowledge, media exposure, chronic diseases, and contact experience with people living with dementia.

  7. Modifiable Risk Factors for Dementia across the Europe: regional comparative studyusing SHARE data

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-04 Risk factors

    Our findings reveal marked geographic variation in dementia risk factors, highlighting the need for region-specific prevention strategies.

  8. Prevalence and influencing factors of cognitive frailty among elderly hypertensive rural community residents of Inner Mongolia, China：A Cross-Sectional Survey

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-04 Disparities

    This study reports the prevalence of CF among elderly hypertensive residents of a community in Inner Mongolia.

  9. Digital and Health Literacy Are Associated with Health-Related Quality of Life Across Cognitive Impairment Stages in Older Adults

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-04 How common it is

    Digital literacy is a meaningful predictor of HRQoL in older adults with intact or mildly impaired cognition, underscoring its potential as an intervention target in digital health strategies.

  10. The Complex Dynamics of Caregiving for ADRD Patients in Uganda: Selection Factors, Challenges, and Benefits

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-03 Caregiving

    Three interrelated themes emerged: relational foundations of caregiving, multidimensional struggles of caregiving, and benefits of caregiving.

  11. The mediating effects of attitudes toward people with dementia on the relationship between caregiving burden and sense of competence among dementia care staff in Southern Chinese nursing homes: A cross-sectional study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-01 Caregiving

    Our results showed that caregiving burden was negatively associated with the sense of ability..

  12. Living arrangements shape the determinants of life-sustaining treatment preferences among Korean older adults

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-31 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Although most Korean older adults declined LST regardless of living arrangement, determinants of LST preferences differed according to household structure.

  13. The effects of virtual reality and video conferencing on personal and relational well-being among older adults with cognitive impairments and their adult children: The Thrive randomized controlled trial

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-27 Clinical trials

    Older adults in senior living communities (SLCs) often face barriers to maintaining emotional well-being and family ties.

  14. Association between Internet Use for Health Information and Self-reported Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis among Older Adults in the United States: Racial and Gender Disparities

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-27 Health systems and care delivery

    Internet use for health information was significantly associated with Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis.

  15. Intelligence Breaks the System It Controls

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-27 Long-term cohort studies

    Using two large-scale longitudinal datasets covering more than 75,000 patients or stays and 7.8 million clinical observations—spanning emergency vasopressor titration in sepsis (MIMIC- IV; 6,243 ICU admissions drawn from 73,141 encounters) and serial cognitive assessment in Alzheimer’s disease (ADNI; 2,262 longitudinal participants)—we train a 13-family computa- tional model zoo and perform a novel experiment: auditing whether clinician and AI treatment decisions jointly or individually match the subsequent patient trajectory, and testing whether cooperation between the two actors resolves their disagreements.

  16. How Much Non-response Matters? Diagnosis Prevalence Estimates in Survey Participants Versus the Total Sample

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-25 Costs and economics

    In this setting, selective participation had only a limited effect on prevalence estimates after weighting.

  17. Privacy Protection of Mental Health Information in China's Electronic Medical Records: A Keyword‑Based Desensitization Method

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-24 How common it is

    While the widespread adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) has significantly improved healthcare efficiency and resource allocation, the sensitivity of medical data poses serious privacy breach risks.

  18. Medication adherence in patients with cognitive disorders

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-20 Getting a diagnosis

    Medication adherence in older adults was strongly influenced by cognitive impairment, gender, health literacy and cohabitation.

  19. Research Trends of Drama Therapy in Mental Health : A Comprehensive Bibliometric analysis

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-14 Disparities

    Drama therapy is in an accelerated growth phase, with substantial scholarly expansion expected over the next two decades.

  20. Point Prevalence of Common Mental Health Conditions in Nigeria: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-13 How common it is

    These estimates are planning values for populations resembling the contributing studies, not national population rates.

  21. Artificial intelligence education for health science and non-STEM students: a mixed- methods evaluation of an interdisciplinary mental health prototype development program

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-11 Caregiving

    This interdisciplinary, prototype-centered AI education program was associated with significant short-term improvements in students’ perceived AI knowledge, digital mental health readiness, interdisciplinary collaboration, innovation capacity, STEM career readiness, and solution-design ability.

  22. The prognostic significance of distinct psychosis symptom profiles in dementia: A cohort study using linked electronic health records

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-05 Health systems and care delivery

    The prognostic significance of psychosis in dementia differs by symptom profile.

  23. Fine-Grained Emotional Characterization of Dementia Caregivers in Online Support Communities Using Large Language Models

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-07-29 Caregiving

    Caregiver narratives were predominantly negative (89.3% of posts; mean valence - 0.46), with interpretable structure.

  24. Public Preferences for End-of-Life Timing in Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-07-29 End-of-life care

    We found that 75% of participants would choose for their life to end in the early stages of ADRD.

  25. Co-design, Cultural Adaptation, and Mixed-Methods Evaluation of a Carer Support Program for Chinese Australian Dementia Carers

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-07-28 Caregiving

    The culturally adapted CSP enhanced self-efficacy among Chinese Australian carers of people with dementia, but not carer burden, quality of life and approach to dementia care.

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