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Newest in this topic

  1. Prevalence of dementia among community-dwelling older adults in rural Uganda: findings from DEPEND Uganda (Dementia Epidemiology, unmet need and co-developing solutions in Uganda) 2026-09-23
  2. Cognition in Whitehall II 'SuperAgers': An Analysis of Dementia Risk Factors 2026-09-14
  3. A National Survey Exploring Dementia Diagnostics and Care Provisions in Primary Care in England 2026-09-12

Studies

1,246 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1968 to 2026

Top journals

  • Alzheimer s & Dementia 76
  • Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 52
  • Neurology 40
  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 37
  • International journal of geriatric psychiatry 26

493 journals in all.

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  1. ACCESS TO NEIGHBORHOOD AMENITIES AND RISK OF INSTITUTIONALIZATION AMONG PERSONS WITH DEMENTIA

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Innovation in Aging 2023-12-01 Risk factors

    This may be due to caregiving challenges associated with the behavioral symptoms PWD exhibit and their reduced capacities to perform daily tasks.

  2. DISPARITIES IN CONTINUITY OF CARE AND USE OF ANNUAL WELLNESS VISITS AMONG OLDER AMERICANS WITH DEMENTIA

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Innovation in Aging 2023-12-01 Health systems and care delivery

    Compared to TM, MA increased the odds of annual wellness visits and reduced Hispanic-White disparity in annual wellness visits.

  3. Estimates of diagnosed dementia prevalence and incidence among diverse beneficiaries in Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2023-12-01 Health systems and care delivery

    Lower diagnosed dementia rates in MA compared to TM may exacerbate racial/ethnic disparities in diagnosed dementia.

  4. The predictive validity of a Brain Care Score for dementia and stroke: data from the UK Biobank cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2023-12-01 Long-term cohort studies

    The 21-point Brain Care Score (BCS) was developed through a modified Delphi process in partnership with practitioners and patients to promote behavior changes and lifestyle choices in order to sustainably reduce the risk of dementia and stroke.

  5. Perceptions of Hospital Care for Persons With Dementia During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Social Media Sentiment Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. The Gerontologist 2023-11-07 Health systems and care delivery

    Hospital dementia care discourse on Reddit advanced 4 negative sentiment themes: (1) fear of poor medication management, hydration, and hygiene, (2) loss of patient advocacy, (3) precipitation of advance directive discussions, and (4) delayed discharge and loss of nursing home bed.

  6. Age at Diagnosis of Atrial Fibrillation and Incident Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. JAMA network open 2023-11-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Epidemiological evidence regarding the association between atrial fibrillation (AF) onset age and risk of incident dementia remains unexplored.

  7. Monitoring and Evaluation of Dementia-Friendly Neighborhoods Using a Walkshed Approach: Protocol for a Scoping Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. JMIR Research Protocols 2023-11-01 Health systems and care delivery

    The results of the study and the submission of a manuscript for peer review are expected in June 2024.

  8. Medicare Advantage Enrollment and Disenrollment Among Persons With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. JAMA Health Forum 2023-09-15 Health systems and care delivery

    The 32 796 872 Medicare beneficiaries in the cohort had a mean (SD) age of 74.0 (12.5) years and included 18 228 513 females (55.6%).

  9. Medicare Advantage Enrollment and Disenrollment Among Persons With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. JAMA Health Forum 2023-09-15 Health systems and care delivery

    In this cross-sectional study of the Medicare population with acute and postacute care use, beneficiaries with ADRD had increasing enrollment in the Medicare Advantage program, proportional to the growth in overall enrollment, but their disenrollment from Medicare Advantage in the following year remained higher compared with beneficiaries without ADRD.

  10. Health care utilization before and after a dementia diagnosis in Medicare Advantage versus traditional Medicare

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2023-09-05 Health systems and care delivery

    Among 454,508 beneficiaries diagnosed with ADRD in 2017, 250,837 (55%) were in TM and 203,671 (45%) in MA.

  11. Neuropsychiatric symptoms in people living with dementia receiving home health services

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2023-08-12 Risk factors

    Participants identified as non-Hispanic White (50%), non-Hispanic Black (30%), or Hispanic (13%).

  12. Considering Questions Before Methods in Dementia Research With Competing Events and Causal Goals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. American journal of epidemiology 2023-08-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Studying causal exposure effects on dementia is challenging when death is a competing event.

  13. Artificial intelligence for dementia-Applied models and digital health

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-07-26 Digital health tools

    Such approaches will benefit also from improvements in remote data measurement, whether cognitive (e.g., online), or naturalistic (e.g., watch-based accelerometry).

  14. Frontotemporal Dementia, Where Do We Stand? A Narrative Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2023-07-21 Digital health tools

    Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a neurodegenerative disease of growing interest, since it accounts for up to 10% of middle-age-onset dementias and entails a social, economic, and emotional burden for the patients and caregivers.

  15. Development and validation of a dementia risk score in the UK Biobank and Whitehall II cohorts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. BMJ mental health 2023-07-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Current dementia risk scores have had limited success in consistently identifying at-risk individuals across different ages and geographical locations.

  16. Estimates of diagnosed dementia prevalence and incidence among diverse beneficiaries in traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring 2023-07-01 Health systems and care delivery

    Approximately half of Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in Medicare Advantage (MA), a private plan alternative to traditional Medicare (TM).

  17. Identifying Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia using home health OASIS assessments

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2023-06-26 Health systems and care delivery

    The most important predictors of having a diagnosis of ADRD by the start of care OASIS assessment were a prior discharge diagnosis of ADRD among those admitted from an inpatient setting, and frequently exhibiting symptoms of confusion.

  18. Estimating Dementia Risk Using Multifactorial Prediction Models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. JAMA network open 2023-06-01 Long-term cohort studies

    The clinical value of current multifactorial algorithms for individualized assessment of dementia risk remains unclear.

  19. Global rural health disparities in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias: State of the science

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-05-23 Disparities

    A location dynamics model and ADRD-focused future directions are offered for guiding rural practitioners, researchers, and policymakers in mitigating rural disparities.

  20. Social participation and risk of developing dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Nature aging 2023-05-18 Prevention and risk

    The increasing number of people with dementia globally illustrates the urgent need to reduce dementia's scale and impact.

  21. Validation of newly derived polygenic risk scores for dementia in a prospective study of older individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Alzheimer's & Dementia 2023-05-12 Genetics

    New PRSs for dementia significantly improve risk-prediction performance, but still account for less risk than APOE genotype overall.

  22. Ambient air pollution and clinical dementia: systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. BMJ 2023-04-05 Prevention and risk

    PM 2.5 might be a risk factor for dementia, as well as nitrogen dioxide and nitrogen oxide, although with more limited data.

  23. Readmission Rates and Episode Costs for Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias Across Hospitals in a Statewide Collaborative

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2023-03-16 Risk factors

    The study included 722 911 hospitalization episodes, of which 66 676 were related to patients with ADRD (mean [SD] age, 83.4 [8.6] years; 42 439 [63.6%] female) and 656 235 were related to patients without ADRD (mean [SD] age, 66.0 [15.4] years; 351 246 [53.5%] female).

  24. Burden of Illness Among Patients with Psychosis due to Dementia with Lewy Bodies and Other Dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. American Journal of Alzheimer s Disease & Other Dementias® 2023-03-09 Health systems and care delivery

    Limited research is available on the real-world experiences of patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB).

  25. Interpretable machine learning for dementia: A systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-02-03 Digital health tools

    Future work should incorporate clinicians to validate explanation methods and make conclusive inferences about dementia-related disease pathology.

  26. Machine Learning for Dementia Prediction: A Systematic Review and Future Research Directions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Journal of medical systems 2023-02-01 Digital health tools

    Nowadays, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have successfully provided automated solutions to numerous real-world problems.

  27. Dementia prevention in memory clinics: recommendations from the European task force for brain health services

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The Lancet regional health. Europe 2023-01-31 Prevention and risk

    Observational population studies indicate that prevention of dementia and cognitive decline is being accomplished, possibly as an unintended result of better vascular prevention and healthier lifestyles.

  28. Rural and urban differences in quality of dementia care of persons with dementia and caregivers across all domains: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. BMC health services research 2023-01-31 Digital health tools

    This comprehensive portrait of rural-urban differences in dementia care highlights possible geographically based inequities and can be used by researchers and decision makers to guide development of more equitable dementia care policies.

  29. Prevalence of dementia in India: National and state estimates from a nationwide study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-01-13 Disparities

    An estimated 8.8 million Indians older than 60 years have dementia.

  30. The worldwide costs of dementia in 2019

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2023-01-08 Costs and economics

    The huge costs of dementia worldwide place enormous strains on care systems and families alike.

  31. Multi-Domain Interventions for Dementia Prevention - A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. The journal of nutrition, health & aging 2023-01-01 Prevention trials

    The included studies (n=15) assessed change in cognition in response to a multidomain lifestyle intervention.

  32. Predicting dementia from spontaneous speech using large language models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. PLOS digital health 2022-12-22 Digital health tools

    Language impairment is an important biomarker of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  33. Blood pressure lowering and prevention of dementia: an individual patient data meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 80 out of 100. European Heart Journal 2022-12-21 Prevention and risk

    The first single-stage individual patient data meta-analysis from randomized double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trials provides evidence to support benefits of antihypertensive treatment in late-mid and later life to lower the risk of dementia.

  34. A Randomized Control Trial for ReDeSign: A Dementia-Friendly Mobile Microlearning Training for Store Workers in Japan

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The Gerontologist 2022-12-07 Risk factors

    Process evaluations confirmed satisfaction and high completion rates of the program.

  35. The effectiveness of non-pharmacological interventions using information and communication technologies for behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. International journal of nursing studies 2022-11-11 Digital health tools

    A meta-analysis using a random-effects model was performed to calculate the pooled standardized mean differences between overall symptoms and each type of symptom.

  36. Classification of Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia using routine clinical and cognitive measures across multicentric underrepresented samples: A cross sectional observational study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Lancet regional health. Americas 2022-11-03 Digital health tools

    A fully automated computational approach included classical statistical methods, support vector machine procedures, and machine learning techniques (random forest and sequential feature selection procedures).

  37. Sense of meaning and purpose in life and risk of incident dementia: New data and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Archives of gerontology and geriatrics 2022-10-23 Long-term cohort studies

    A greater sense of meaning and purpose in life is associated with lower dementia risk.

  38. A systematic review of the cost-effectiveness of community and population interventions to reduce the modifiable risk factors for dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Maturitas 2022-09-24 Risk factors

    Dementia is a leading global cause of morbidity and mortality.

  39. Development of a novel dementia risk prediction model in the general population: A large, longitudinal, population-based machine-learning study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. EClinicalMedicine 2022-09-23 Digital health tools

    Our prediction model was internally evaluated based on five-fold cross-validation on discrimination and calibration, and it was further compared with existing prediction scales.

  40. Sum of boxes of the clinical dementia rating scale highly predicts conversion or reversion in predementia stages

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-09-23 Digital health tools

    Conversion rates increased with increasing CDR-SB scores.

  41. Variations in Medicare Advantage Switching Rates Among African American and Hispanic Medicare Beneficiaries With Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias, by Sex and Dual Eligibility

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The Journals of Gerontology Series B 2022-09-08 Health systems and care delivery

    The study included 2,284,175 FFS Medicare beneficiaries with an ADRD diagnosis in 2017.

  42. What Do We Know about Social and Non-Social Factors Influencing the Pathway from Cognitive Health to Dementia? A Systematic Review of Reviews

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Brain sciences 2022-09-08 Prevention trials

    The heterogeneous and multi-factorial nature of dementia requires the consideration of all health aspects when predicting the risk of its development and planning strategies for its prevention.

  43. The inter-relationship between delirium and dementia: the importance of delirium prevention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2022-08-26 Prevention and risk

    Delirium and dementia are two frequent causes of cognitive impairment among older adults and have a distinct, complex and interconnected relationship.

  44. Multi-feature computational framework for combined signatures of dementia in underrepresented settings

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of neural engineering 2022-08-25 Digital health tools

    The model accurately identified dementia subtypes using measures readily available in underrepresented settings, with a similar performance than advanced biomarkers.

  45. 057 Dementia and sociodemographic factors a review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 28 out of 100. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 2022-08-12 Risk factors

    Better understanding of sociodemographic factors of our patient group is key to improving equity of care.

  46. Our findings suggest a high global dementia prevalence in LAC countries and an unequal burden of dementia for women, lower-educated, and rural residents.

  47. A systematic literature review and meta-analysis on digital health interventions for people living with dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2022-06-01 Digital health tools

    Supervised intervention delivery is linked to greatest benefits.

  48. Area Deprivation Index and Progression to Dementia (S2.007)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Neurology 2022-05-03 Risk factors

    To investigate the association of the area deprivation index (ADI), as assigned at the census block group-level, with progression to dementia in cognitively unimpaired at baseline participants (≥50 years old) of the population-based Mayo Clinic Study of Aging (MCSA).

  49. Post-Stroke Cognitive Impairment and Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Circulation research 2022-04-14 Prevention and risk

    Poststroke cognitive impairment and dementia (PSCID) is a major source of morbidity and mortality after stroke worldwide.

  50. The use of digital technologies by people with mild-to-moderate dementia during the COVID-19 pandemic: A positive technology perspective

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Dementia (London, England) 2022-03-25 Digital health tools

    A growing body of research has shown that people with dementia are using digital technologies to enhance lived experience.

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