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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Outcomes for acetylcholinesterase inhibitor (AChEI) treatment included (1) any new AChEI treatment during follow-up, and (2) persistence of treatment during follow-up categorized into: intermittent treatment (< 50% follow-ups reporting treatment), persistent (≥50% follow-ups), and always treated.
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Investigators/staff from 85 (of 192 cohorts) responded; 6 (7%) excluded participants with severe impairment; 80 (94%) measured hearing and/or vision impairment, while 5 (6%) measured neither.
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From March 2019 to March 2020, 264 patients were included.
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During the follow-up, 428 developed dementia; 221 had AD, 157 had VaD, and 50 had dementia of other subtypes.
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In this sample, 12.7% of clients were admitted to LTC, with a mean time to admission of 49.6 months (SE = 0.20).
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Seventeen studies were included in the review.
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No change was found in the Qualidem total score (range: 0-111) over 2 years.
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Women and racial/ethnic minority dementia caregivers have unique caregiving experiences and support needs.
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Vision impairment is common among older persons.
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We sought to assess risk of COVID-19 among front-line health-care workers compared with the general community and the effect of personal protective equipment (PPE) on risk.
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Social frailty is associated with physical functioning, cognition, and depression, and predicts mortality.
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The impact of comorbidities present at the time of transplantation changes with time after transplantation.
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The results should form the basis for future health policy decisions on the treatment of patients with multiple chronic diseases and also show the need to introduce new ways of providing long-term care to this population.
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60/100
Patients with BP are more likely to have various neurological diseases, schizophrenia and psoriasis prior to the diagnosis of BP, supporting associations found in other studies.
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Much can still be done in the way of service development and provision, GP training and education, and the eradication of stigma attached to dementia, to improve the early detection and management of dementia.
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Satisfaction with one's own aging and feeling young are indicators of positive well-being in late life.
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60/100
Using 12-year longitudinal data from deceased participants of the Berlin Aging Study (N = 414; age 70-103 years, at first occasion; M = 87 years, SD = 8.13), the authors examined whether and how old and very old individuals exhibit terminal decline in reported life satisfaction at the end of life.
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More than one third of severely cognitively impaired residents in US nursing homes have feeding tubes.
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PET participants lived longer in community (0.26 years, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.05 to 0.45) and overall (0.15, CI: 0.02 to 0.27), but did not have statistically different health insurance (€703, CI: -3974 to 5045) or total costs including institutionalization (-€8258, CI: -20,622 to 3377).
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An initial database search yielded 3,977 studies of which 22 were included in this review.
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There were 719 respondents (276 people with dementia, 443 carers).
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The mean score for affiliate stigma of dementia family caregivers was 48.09 ± 16.38 (range: 22-86).
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Most caregivers (72.0%) favored BBBM for AD diagnosis.
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59/100
A total number of 450 participants (Mean age = 69.5 years; SD = 10.8) have been screened at different recruitment sites throughout the country, among whom 425 participants (94.4%) met the selection criteria.
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Compared with food secure older adults, those reporting food insecurity experienced worsened cognitive functioning over time (B = -0.63, p < .001), and they were more likely to have onset of cognitive impairment (OR= 1.46, p < .001) in the 6-y observation.
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.
- Social participation and mild cognitive impairment in low- and middle-income countries
- Connecting the Dots in Parkinson’s care: A Rapid Review and Qualitative Synthesis of Multidisciplinary Patient Passports for Parkinson’s disease
- Precipitating and predisposing events and symptoms for admission to assisted living or nursing home care
- Applying the Health Belief Model to Quantify and Investigate Expectations for Computerized Cognitive Training
- High Burden of Palliative Care Needs of Older Adults During Emergency Major Abdominal Surgery
- Health-economic burden of dementia in South Korea
- Community occupational therapy for older patients with dementia and their care givers: cost effectiveness study
- Prevalence of Comorbid Dementia in Late-life Depression and Bipolar Disorder: A Retrospective Inpatient Study
- Informal Caregiving and Alzheimer's Disease: The Psychological Effect
- Assessment and management of pressure ulcers in the elderly: current strategies