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  1. Is there a role for artificial intelligence in end-of-life care for persons with dementia? Perspectives of and recommendations by caregivers and hospice staff 2026-09-17
  2. Online Peer Support Use Among Informal Caregivers of People Living With Alzheimer Disease or Related Dementias: National Cross-Sectional Web-Based Survey 2026-09-07
  3. Interconnected Challenges in Dementia Caregiving: A Co-occurrence Network Analysis of Burden, Unmet Needs, and System Failures Among Caregivers 2026-08-17

Studies

1,013 studies carry this tag; 1,012 of them have a date.

Date range

1986 to 2026

Top journals

  • Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 63
  • The Gerontologist 48
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia 28
  • International psychogeriatrics 28
  • Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 26

339 journals in all.

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  1. ADI was significantly higher in this cohort ( M = 3.84, SD = 2.58) than in the surrounding county ( M = 2.79, SD = 1.88, p = .000).

  2. HOME HEALTH USE BY OLDER ADULTS WITH DEMENTIA: COMPARING MEDICARE ADVANTAGE AND TRADITIONAL MEDICARE

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Innovation in Aging 2024 Health systems and care delivery

    Skilled home health care (HHC) is a critical service for community-dwelling older adults with dementia, but the majority of evidence about its use and quality is based on Traditional Medicare (TM) beneficiaries.

  3. Impact on End‐of‐life Planning of a Care Coordination Program for persons living with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2023-12-01 Health systems and care delivery

    We enrolled 195 patients in the CARES dementia care program.

  4. INDIVIDUAL AND COUNTY-LEVEL FACTORS OF SERVICE USE BY DEMENTIA FAMILY CAREGIVERS IN RURAL APPALACHIA

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Innovation in Aging 2023-12-01 Risk factors

    These findings suggest that caregivers living in rural regions may depend more on informal support for meeting basic care needs of their relative living with dementia.

  5. Population‐based Dementia Identification and Care Coordination: The CS CARES Program

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2023-12-01 Health systems and care delivery

    PLWD proactively enrolled in a dementia care program have high baseline rates of behavioral issues and their caregivers have elevated depression and stress scores.

  6. Consensus definition of advance care planning in dementia: A 33-country Delphi study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-11-20 End-of-life care

    A communication and relationship-centered definitional framework of ACP in dementia evolved through international consensus supporting inclusiveness of persons with dementia and their family.

  7. Personal Health Planning in Adult-Child Former Caregivers of Parents Living With Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. American Journal of Health Promotion 2023-09-28 Health systems and care delivery

    Caregiving for a parent living with dementia (PLWD) shapes former caregivers’ personal health planning.

  8. Care Ecosystem Collaborative Model and Health Care Costs in Medicare Beneficiaries With Dementia: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. JAMA internal medicine 2023-09-18 Health systems and care delivery

    Collaborative dementia care programs are effective in addressing the needs of patients with dementia and their caregivers.

  9. Studies suggest that reminiscence strategies combined with an intergenerational approach may yield significant social and mental health benefits for participants.

  10. Mortality and Discharge Location of Intensive Care Patients With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. American Journal of Critical Care 2023-06-30 Health systems and care delivery

    A total of 145 342 adults met inclusion criteria; 10.5% had ADRD and were likely to be older, female, and have more comorbid conditions.

  11. The Use of Telehealth Among People Living With Dementia-Caregiver Dyads During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Scoping Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Journal of medical Internet research 2023-05-25 Health systems and care delivery

    The inclusion criteria for peer-reviewed English publications from March 2020 to August 2022 consisted of studies related to telehealth services for people living with dementia and their family caregivers and studies conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  12. Utilization and performance of long-term care system for older people with disabilities and dementia in Zhejiang Province, China

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in psychiatry 2023-04-11 Health systems and care delivery

    To explore changes in performance, weaknesses, and utilization of the long-term care (LTC) system for older people with disabilities and dementia (OPWDD) in Zhejiang Province, China, thereby providing a reference for decision-making amid a progressively aging population.

  13. of 74,486 decedents (60.5% women; mean age 87.1 years (standard deviation: 7.1)), 82.6% had at least one ED visit in their last year of life.

  14. Family caregivers of nursing home residents with dementia received an educational booklet and a family care conference with a trained facilitator to discuss their relative's future care.

  15. Risk of Discharge to Lower-Quality Nursing Homes Among Hospitalized Older Adults With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2023-02-08 Health systems and care delivery

    The sample included 2 619 464 patients (mean [SD] age, 81.3 [8.6] years; 61% women; 87% were White; 8% were Black; 22% with ADRD).

  16. A Web-Based Decision Aid for Caregivers of Persons With Dementia With Firearm Access (Safe at Home Study): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. JMIR research protocols 2023-01-31 Treatments

    The S@H study is the first randomized trial of a firearm safety decision aid for ADRD caregivers.

  17. Promotors and barriers to the implementation and adoption of assistive technology and telecare for people with dementia and their caregivers: a systematic review of the literature

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. BMC health services research 2022-12-23 Digital health tools

    The most crucial elements for the adoption of ATT in the future will be a focus on co-design, improved involvement of relevant stakeholders, and the adaptability (tailoring related to context) of ATT solutions over time (disease process).

  18. Factors associated with high intensity of end‐of‐life care for decedents with dementia in a Medicare Advantage plan

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2022-12-01 Health systems and care delivery

    We found notable differences in socio‐demographic and clinical characteristics, and utilization patterns in the year prior to death between decedents with dementia who were hospitalized in the last 30 days of life vs. those who were not.

  19. How to create value with unobtrusive monitoring technology in home-based dementia care: a multimethod study among key stakeholders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. BMC geriatrics 2022-12-01 Health systems and care delivery

    The overall design-oriented need referred to clear situation classifications including urgent care (fall- and wandering detection), non-urgent care (deviations in eating, drinking, sleeping), and future care (risk predictions).

  20. IMPROVING DEMENTIA CARE THROUGH DIGITAL CAREGIVER EMPOWERMENT: DURABLE CLAIMS‐BASED OUTCOMES DEMONSTRATED IN A PRAGMATIC REAL‐WORLD TRIAL

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 27 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2022-12-01 Health systems and care delivery

    Empowering family caregivers of patients with ADOD in a personalized DCEP provides durable reductions in patient hospitalizations and medical costs.

  21. Com-mens: a home-based logopaedic intervention program for communication problems between people with dementia and their caregivers - a single-group mixed-methods pilot study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. International journal of language & communication disorders 2022-11-18 Health systems and care delivery

    Repeated measures analyses revealed no significant changes over time.

  22. Development and External Validation of a Mortality Prediction Model for Community-Dwelling Older Adults With Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. JAMA internal medicine 2022-11-01 End-of-life care

    Of 4267 participants with probable dementia in HRS, the mean (SD) age was 82.2 (7.6) years, 2930 (survey-weighted 69.4%) were female, and 785 (survey-weighted 12.1%) identified as Black.

  23. 198 A UNIQUE COMMUNITY POST-DIAGNOSTIC DEMENTIA SUPPORT SERVICE DELIVERED BY THE ADVANCED NURSE PRACTITIONER

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Age and Ageing 2022-10-25 Risk factors

    Patient satisfaction outcomes range from 71 - 100% with service intervention outcomes favourably indicating the direct impact of the service, which are unmeasurable to the older adult living with dementia, and include increases in: (i) Confidence - 90%; (ii) Mood - 50% and (iii) open to talking through difficulties encountered - 87%.

  24. Care networks ranged from 1 to 8 members.

  25. Pain Impacting Quality of Life in Persons with Dementia Dying in the Nursing Home by Alternative Medicare Payment Model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Palliative Medicine 2022-06-08 Health systems and care delivery

    There were 115,757 NH residents with dementia who self-reported pain in the last 30 days of life.

  26. Hospice Improves Care Quality For Older Adults With Dementia In Their Last Month Of Life

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Health affairs (Project Hope) 2022-06-01 End-of-life care

    The Medicare hospice benefit was originally designed around a cancer disease paradigm but increasingly serves people living with dementia.

  27. Racial and Ethnic Differences in Hospice Use and Hospitalizations at End-of-Life Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. JAMA network open 2022-06-01 Disparities

    The cohort sample included 5058 beneficiaries with dementia (mean [SD] age, 85.5 [8.0] years; 3038 women [60.1%]; 809 [16.0%] non-Hispanic Black, 357 [7.1%] Hispanic, and 3892 non-Hispanic White respondents [76.9%]).

  28. Caregiving Burden Among Caregivers of People With Dementia Through the Lens of Intersectionality

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The Gerontologist 2022-05-01 Disparities

    Surprisingly, compared to White female caregivers, all the other groups were 37% (95% CI 0.41-0.95) to 71% (95% CI 0.15-0.56) less likely to have emotional burden.

  29. Engagement in advance care planning might be hindered if it is too medicalized and exclusively patient-centered.

  30. The management of dementia worldwide: A review on policy practices, clinical guidelines, end-of-life care, and challenge along with aging population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Bioscience trends 2022-04-25 End-of-life care

    Dementia, with a high incidence rate, fast-developing syndrome and large disease burden, raises challenges to global health and social systems.

  31. On meta-analysis, PARO had no ST or LT compared to UC or AC over 5-12 weeks on agitation (ST vs UC, 4 trials, 153 participants: pooled standardized mean difference (SMD) 0.25; - 0.57 to 0.06; LT vs UC; 2 trials, 77 participants, SMD = -0.24; - 0.94, 0.46), cognition (ST vs UC, 3 trials, 128 participants: SMD= 0.03; -0.32, 0.38), overall neuropsychiatric symptoms (ST vs UC, 3 trials, 169 participants: SMD= -0.01; -0.32, 0.29; ST vs AC, 2 trials, 145 participants: SMD =0.02, -0.71, 0.85), apathy (ST vs AC, 2 trials, 81 participants: SMD= 0.14; 0.29, 0.58), depression (ST vs UC, 4 trials, 181 participants; SMD= 0.08; -0.52, 0.69; LT vs UC: 2 trials, 77 participants: SMD =0.01; -0.75, 0.77), anxiety (ST vs UC: 2 trials, 104 participants, SMD= 0.24; -0.85, 1.33) and quality of life (ST vs UC, 2 trials, 127 participants: SMD=-0.05; -0.52, 0.42; ST vs AC: 2 trials, 159 participants, SMD =-0.36, -0.76, 0.05).

  32. Refining a Digital Therapeutic Platform for Home Care Agencies in Dementia Care to Elicit Stakeholder Feedback: Focus Group Study With Stakeholders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. JMIR aging 2022-03-03 Health systems and care delivery

    Overall, 39 participants participated across the 6 stakeholder focus groups.

  33. Mechanical Ventilation and Survival in Patients With Advanced Dementia in Medicare Advantage

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Journal of pain and symptom management 2022-02-20 Health systems and care delivery

    Medicare Advantage (MA) cares for an increasing proportion of traditional Medicare (TM) patients although, the association of MA on low-value care among hospitalized patients is uncertain.

  34. Advance Care Planning in Neurodegenerative Disorders: A Scoping Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. International journal of environmental research and public health 2022-01-12 End-of-life care

    Advance care planning (ACP) is increasingly acknowledged as a key step to enable patients to define their goals/preferences for future medical care, together with their carers and health professionals.

  35. Impact of Comorbid Dementia on Patterns of Hospice Use

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of palliative medicine 2021-10-18 End-of-life care

    Of 3123 decedents, 465 (14.9%) had a primary hospice diagnosis of dementia and 943 (30.2%) had comorbid dementia and died of another illness.

  36. Cost–Benefit Analysis of the COPE Program for Persons Living With Dementia: Toward a Payment Model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Innovation in Aging 2021-10-16 Health systems and care delivery

    Per-dyad mean cost savings at 12 months were $2 354 for those who received COPE with a mean difference-in-difference of -$6 667 versus HCBS alone (95% CI: -$15 473, $2 734; not statistically significant).

  37. Use of Post-Acute Care by Medicare Beneficiaries With a Diagnosis of Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2021-10-14 Health systems and care delivery

    Hospitalized patients with dementia transitioning to post-acute care may be particularly vulnerable to changes in post-acute care utilization driven by payment reforms; however, use of post-acute care in this population is incompletely understood.

  38. Quality of Care and Outcomes Among a Diverse Group of Long-Term Care Residents With Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Aging and Health 2021-10-11 Health systems and care delivery

    In 2016, there were 1,005,781 Medicare Advantage and fee-for-service long-term residents.

  39. Factors Associated With Family Caregiver Burden of Home-Dwelling Patients With Advanced Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2021-10-08 End-of-life care

    Younger family caregivers caring for clinically unstable patients with severe neuropsychiatric symptoms experienced greater burden without informal paid help.

  40. Palliative care interventions in advanced dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 86 out of 100. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2021-09-28 End-of-life care

    We assessed the risk of bias of included studies using the Cochrane Risk of Bias tool and the overall certainty of the evidence for each outcome using GRADE.

  41. Feasibility and Acceptability of a Web-Based Caregiver Decision Aid (Safety in Dementia) for Firearm Access: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. JMIR formative research 2021-09-22 Treatments

    SiD represents a new resource for promoting safety among people with dementia, and high acceptability was achieved in a pilot trial.

  42. Nursing Home Alzheimer's Special Care Units: Geographic Location Matters

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2021-08-20 Risk factors

    Limited data suggest nursing home (NH) Alzheimer's special care units (ASCUs) may improve care and outcomes among residents with dementia.

  43. Postacute care outcomes in home health or skilled nursing facilities in patients with a diagnosis of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Health services research 2021-08-12 End-of-life care

    Medicare beneficiaries with a diagnosis of dementia receiving postacute care in HH or SNF experienced similar rates of readmission and mortality across settings.

  44. Nursing home admissions for persons with dementia: Role of home‐ and community‐based services

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Health Services Research 2021-08-11 Risk factors

    Considerable variations of breadth and intensity in county-level HCBS were observed.

  45. Global mortality from dementia: Application of a new method and results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2021-07-27 Caregiving

    Mortality due to dementia represents a substantial global burden, and is expected to continue to grow into the future as an older, aging population expands globally.

  46. Factors Associated With Emergency Department Visits by People With Dementia Near the End of Life: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2021-07-14 End-of-life care

    The review highlights characteristics that could help identify patients at risk of ED attendance near the end of life and potential service-related factors to reduce risks.

  47. Exploring Differential Perceptions and Barriers to Advance Care Planning in Dementia among Asian Patient-Caregiver Dyads-A Mixed-Methods Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. International journal of environmental research and public health 2021-07-04 End-of-life care

    A parallel mixed-methods study on 20 patient-caregiver dyads in an Asian population was conducted to explore the differential perceptions and barriers to ACP in dementia.

  48. Defining end of life in dementia: A systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Palliative medicine 2021-06-17 End-of-life care

    End-of-life care and research that focuses only on cognitive and functional decline may fail to recognise the complexities and unmet needs relevant to dementia and end of life.

  49. Dying with dementia in Medicare Advantage, Accountable Care Organizations, or traditional Medicare

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2021-05-14 Health systems and care delivery

    Among 370,094 persons with dementia, 93,801 (25.4%) were in MA (mean age [SD], 86.9 [7.7], 67.6% female), 39,586 (10.7%) were ACO attributed (mean age [SD], 87.2 [7.6], 67.3% female), and 236,707 (63.9%) were in TM (mean age [SD], 87.0 [7.8], 67.6% female).

  50. Effects of comprehensive intervention on life quality among the elderly with Alzheimer Disease and their caregivers based on mixed models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Nursing open 2021-05-14 Treatments

    The multi-sectoral collaborative care model proposed in this study integrated resources from several departments, effectively improved the quality of life of patients and their caregivers, and provided a way of care services for patients with Alzheimer Disease.

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