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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. Increasing comorbidity and health services utilization in older adults with prior stroke

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Neurology 2016-10-19 Digital health tools

    Our findings demonstrate the importance of community-based patient-centered care strategies for stroke survivors that address their range of health needs and prevent more costly acute care use.

  2. Home-based caregiver training: Benefits differ by care receivers' dementia diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.) 2016-06-10 Caregiving

    Patients with dementia differ in their behavioral and psychological symptoms according to their diagnosis with Alzheimer's disease (AD) or vascular dementia (VaD), requiring different symptom-management strategies.

  3. A retrospective population based cohort study of access to specialist palliative care in the last year of life: who is still missing out a decade on?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. BMC palliative care 2016-05-10 End-of-life care

    There is small but significant increase in access to specialist palliative care services in Western Australia, specifically in patients dying with non-cancer conditions.

  4. Sleep apnea and the risk of dementia: a population-based 5-year follow-up study in Taiwan

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. PloS one 2013-10-24 Costs and economics

    SA may be a gender-dependent, age-dependent, and time-dependent risk factor for dementia.

  5. Effects of the NYU caregiver intervention-adult child on residential care placement

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. The Gerontologist 2013-01-20 Caregiving

    Two thirds (66%) of adult child caregivers in the control condition admitted their parent to a residential care setting compared with 37% in the treatment condition.

  6. The prevalence and course of neuropsychiatric symptoms in nursing home patients with dementia: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2012-11-16 Health systems and care delivery

    This review confirms that clinically significant NPSs are common in NH patients with dementia.

  7. Epidemiology and risk factors of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 2005-11-16 Risk factors

    ementia refers to a syndrome that is characterised by progressive deterioration of cognitive functions.

  8. This is the first report of incidence rate differences for dementia and AD in studies of 2 populations from nonindustrialized and industrialized countries using identical methods and the same group of investigators in both sites.

  9. Dementia Diagnosis Unawareness and Caregiver Burden in a Multi-ethnic Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Journal of general internal medicine 2025-01-14 Caregiving

    Eighty-one percent of eligible participants were not aware of a dementia diagnosis.

  10. Physical activity interventions in older adults with a cognitive impairment: A critical review of reviews

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Aging medicine (Milton (N.S.W)) 2023-05-24 Prevention trials

    This critical review explores the review material on physical activity combined with cognitive stimulation interventions in older adults with cognitive impairment and/or dementia.

  11. Social isolation is linked to classical risk factors of Alzheimer's disease-related dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. PloS one 2023-02-01 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease and related dementias is a major public health burden-compounding over upcoming years due to longevity.

  12. Informal Caregiving and Alzheimer's Disease: The Psychological Effect

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) 2022-12-27 Caregiving

    We identified 19 studies with primary data.

  13. Association of Medicare bundled payment model with joint replacement care for people with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022-05-30 Costs and economics

    Our sample included 3,361,950 Medicare enrollees with ADRD (2,156,995 women [64%]; mean [SD] age, 83 [8.0] years; 2,646,405 white [78%], 344,478 black [10%], 224,010 Hispanic [7%]).

  14. Characteristics of Advance Care Planning Interventions Across Dementia Stages: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing 2021-01-21 End-of-life care

    Three ACP interventions focused on mild dementia and seven on advanced dementia.

  15. Racial/Ethnic Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life in Persons With and Without Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2020-11-12 Disparities

    Generally, Blacks and Latinos reported higher prevalence of poor HRQOL compared with whites.

  16. Racial and Ethnic Differences in Knowledge About One's Dementia Status

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2020-04-13 Disparities

    Among subjects identified as having dementia by the prediction model, 43.5% to 50.2%, depending on the survey year, reported that they were informed of the dementia status by their physician.

  17. Prevalence and Risk Factors for Fecal Incontinence in Home Hospice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. The American journal of hospice & palliative care 2018-06-24 End-of-life care

    Further studies are needed to identify modifiable risk factors for FI detection and its symptom management in this patient population.

  18. Do determinants of burden and emotional distress in dementia caregivers change over time?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Aging & mental health 2015-11-20 Caregiving

    General burden is shown to be determined by severity of patient's neuropsychiatric symptoms, caregiver's sense of competence, health-related quality of life.

  19. Health insurance status and the care of nursing home residents with advanced dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. JAMA internal medicine 2013 Costs and economics

    Residents enrolled in managed care (n = 133) were more likely to have do-not-hospitalize orders compared with those in traditional Medicare fee for service (n = 158) (63.7% vs 50.9%; adjusted odds ratio, 1.9; 95% CI, 1.1-3.4), were less likely to be transferred to the hospital for acute illness (3.8% vs 15.7%; adjusted odds ratio, 0.2; 95% CI, 0.1-0.5), had more primary care visits per 90 days (mean [SD], 4.8 [2.6] vs 4.2 [5.0]; adjusted rate ratio, 1.3; 95% CI, 1.1-1.6), and had more nurse practitioner visits (3.0 [2.1] vs 0.8 [2.6]; adjusted rate ratio, 3.0; 95% CI, 2.2-4.1).

  20. Cognitive stimulation therapy for people with dementia: cost-effectiveness analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science 2006-06-01 Costs and economics

    Cognitive stimulation therapy for people with dementia has effectiveness advantages over, and may be more cost-effective than, treatment as usual.

  21. The PROMPPT trial will assess whether review by trained clinical pharmacists working in general practices can support safe opioid reduction without compromising pain management and quality of life.

  22. These three main clusers were confirmed in a testing sample.

  23. The prevalence and incidence of early-onset dementia among adults with autism spectrum disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research 2021-08-11 Digital health tools

    The prevalence and incidence of early-onset dementia among adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is currently unknown.

  24. Screening for IC impairments identifies older adults at higher risk of incident frailty and incident IADL/ADL disability.

  25. Comparison of dementia risk after age 50 between individuals with and without HIV infection

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. AIDS (London, England) 2021-04-01 Digital health tools

    Compared with PWOH, PWH were at 58% higher risk for dementia despite HIV treatment with ART.

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