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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. Trends in Relative Incidence and Prevalence of Dementia Across Non-Hispanic Black and White Individuals in the United States, 2000-2016

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2021-03-01 Disparities

    This study did not find evidence to suggest that the ratio of dementia risk across Black and White individuals changed in the US between 2000 and 2016.

  2. Burden of illness among patients with dementia-related psychosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy 2021-02-27 Health systems and care delivery

    A significantly higher percentage of DRP patients had ≥1 diagnosis for behavioral health conditions in the pre-index period compared with dementia-only patients (depression: 32.4% vs. 22.8%; anxiety: 19.1% vs. 11.5%; and insomnia: 9.0% vs. 6.3%; P < 0.001 for all comparisons).

  3. Assessment of the DTI-ALPS Parameter Along the Perivascular Space in Older Adults at Risk of Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Journal of neuroimaging : official journal of the American Society of Neuroimaging 2021-02-08 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Recently, there has been growing interest in the glymphatic system (the functional waste clearance pathway for the central nervous system and its role in flushing solutes (such as amyloid ß and tau), metabolic, and other cellular waste products in the brain.

  4. Can Use of Digital Technologies by People with Dementia Improve Self-Management and Social Participation? A Systematic Review of Effect Studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Journal of clinical medicine 2021-02-05 Digital health tools

    There is increasing interest in the use of technology to support social health in dementia.

  5. Are Chronic Pain Patients with Dementia Being Undermedicated?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of Pain Research 2021-02-01 Risk factors

    In dementia, neuropathological changes alter the perception and expression of pain.

  6. The effect of direct cognitive assessment in the Medicare annual wellness visit on dementia diagnosis rates

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Health Services Research 2021-01-22 Risk factors

    Annual Wellness Visit utilization was associated with an increased probability of new dementia diagnosis with effects varying by racial group (categorized as white, black, Hispanic/Latino, or Asian based on Social Security Administration data).

  7. Evaluation of Wearable Technology in Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Frontiers in medicine 2021-01-11 Digital health tools

    Forty-eight studies from 18,456 screened abstracts (Dementia: n = 2,516, Control: n = 1,224) met inclusion criteria for the systematic review.

  8. How can dementia and disability be prevented in older adults: where are we today and where are we going?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Journal of internal medicine 2021-01-10 Prevention and risk

    Ageing of the population, together with population growth, has brought along an ample increase in the number of older individuals living with dementia and disabilities.

  9. Cognitive Reserve, Alzheimer's Neuropathology, and Risk of Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Neuropsychology Review 2021-01-08 Prevention and risk

    Cognitive reserve (CR) may reduce the risk of dementia.

  10. Classifying Non-Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease/Vascular Dementia Patients Using Kinematic, Time-Based, and Visuospatial Parameters: The Digital Clock Drawing Test

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2021-01-01 Digital health tools

    The dCDT is able to operationally define graphomotor output that cannot be measured using traditional paper and pencil test administration in older health controls and participants with dementia.

  11. Ethnic Differences in Dementia Risk: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2021-01-01 Disparities

    Evidence to date suggest there are ethnic differences in risk of dementia.

  12. Healthcare costs among patients with dementia‐related psychosis: Comparing dementia with Lewy bodies with other dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2020-12-01 Health systems and care delivery

    DLB patients had higher medication and psychosis‐related costs than DRP patients who had other dementias.

  13. Automatic dementia screening and scoring by applying deep learning on clock-drawing tests

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Scientific reports 2020-11-30 Digital health tools

    Dementia is one of the most common neurological syndromes in the world.

  14. A comparison of machine learning methods for survival analysis of high-dimensional clinical data for dementia prediction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Scientific reports 2020-11-23 Digital health tools

    Data collected from clinical trials and cohort studies, such as dementia studies, are often high-dimensional, censored, heterogeneous and contain missing information, presenting challenges to traditional statistical analysis.

  15. Dementia in Latin America: Paving the way toward a regional action plan

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020-11-20 Disparities

    Across Latin American and Caribbean countries (LACs), the fight against dementia faces pressing challenges, such as heterogeneity, diversity, political instability, and socioeconomic disparities.

  16. Dynamic brain fluctuations outperform connectivity measures and mirror pathophysiological profiles across dementia subtypes: A multicenter study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. NeuroImage 2020-11-02 Digital health tools

    From molecular mechanisms to global brain networks, atypical fluctuations are the hallmark of neurodegeneration.

  17. Conference report: dementia research and care and its impact in Switzerland

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Swiss medical weekly 2020-11-01 Drug development

    In October 2019, a Swiss panel of experts met for the Dementia Summit in Brunnen, Switzerland, to discuss the latest scientific findings on basic and clinical research, as well as practical and political approaches to the challenges of dementia disorders in Switzerland.

  18. Assessment of Rural-Urban Differences in Health Care Use and Survival Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. JAMA network open 2020-10-01 Disparities

    Study results suggest that, after diagnosis, rural Medicare beneficiaries with ADRD spend more time in nursing homes and less time in the community, receive less home health care, and have shorter survival than their urban counterparts.

  19. Telemedicine and the rural dementia population: A systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Maturitas 2020-09-24 Digital health tools

    The testing conditions and the accessibility of telemedicine yield inconclusive results as to whether telemedicine can improve the management of dementia in geriatric individuals.

  20. Behavioral and Psychological Effects of Coronavirus Disease-19 Quarantine in Patients With Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Frontiers in psychiatry 2020-09-09 Caregiving

    Increased BPSD was reported in 59.6% of patients as worsening of preexisting symptoms (51.9%) or as new onset (26%), and requested drug modifications in 27.6% of these cases.

  21. How Can Hearing Loss Cause Dementia?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neuron 2020-08-31 Prevention and risk

    Epidemiological studies identify midlife hearing loss as an independent risk factor for dementia, estimated to account for 9% of cases.

  22. Digital biomarker-based individualized prognosis for people at risk of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2020-08-19 Digital health tools

    Digital biomarker prognostic models can be a useful tool to assist large-scale population screening for the early detection of cognitive impairment and patient monitoring over time.

  23. Loneliness and Risk of Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 2020-08-01 Risk factors

    Loneliness is associated with increased risk of dementia.

  24. Racial and Educational Disparities in Dementia and Dementia-Free Life Expectancy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 2020-08-01 Disparities

    Dementia experience and dementia burden differ dramatically along race-education lines.

  25. Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. The Lancet 2020-07-30 Prevention and risk

  26. Prevalence and prognostic value of Delirium as the initial presentation of COVID-19 in the elderly with dementia: An Italian retrospective study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. EClinicalMedicine 2020-07-30 Clinical safety

    Of the 59 residents, 57 (96⋅6%) tested positive (mean age: 82⋅8; women: 66⋅7%).

  27. Recommendations of the 5th Canadian Consensus Conference on the diagnosis and treatment of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020-07-29 Prevention and risk

    Since 1989, four Canadian Consensus Conferences on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia (CCCDTD) have provided evidence-based dementia guidelines for Canadian clinicians and researchers.

  28. World-Wide FINGERS Network: A global approach to risk reduction and prevention of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020-07-05 Prevention and risk

    Reducing the risk of dementia can halt the worldwide increase of affected people.

  29. Rural patients with ADRD had 1.23 higher adjusted odds (P < .001) of going to the ED for a preventable visit compared to urban counterparts.

  30. Quality of Nursing Homes and Admission of Residents With Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias: The Potential Influence of Market Factors and State Policies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2020-06-23 Risk factors

    This study aimed to examine the associations between nursing home (NH) quality and prevalence of newly admitted NH residents with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD), and to assess the extent to which market-level wages for certified nursing assistants (CNAs) and state Medicaid behavioral and mental health add-on policy may influence such associations.

  31. Artificial intelligence (AI) approaches pose a great opportunity for individualized, pre-symptomatic disease diagnosis which plays a key role in the context of personalized, predictive, and finally preventive medicine (PPPM).

  32. Dementia care and COVID-19 pandemic: a necessary digital revolution

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology 2020-06-17 Digital health tools

    Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most memory clinics have had to suspend their activities.

  33. Identification of Conserved Proteomic Networks in Neurodegenerative Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cell reports 2020-06-01 Disease mechanisms

    Data-driven analyses are increasingly valued in modern medicine.

  34. Depression-an underrecognized target for prevention of dementia in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2020-05-20 Prevention and risk

    It is broadly acknowledged that the onset of dementia in Alzheimer's disease (AD) may be modifiable by the management of risk factors.

  35. Prevalence and geographical variation of dementia in New Zealand from 2012 to 2015: Brief report utilising routinely collected data within the Integrated Data Infrastructure

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Australasian Journal on Ageing 2020-05-11 Risk factors

    Approximately 2% of those aged ≥60 years had dementia, lower than published estimates.

  36. The effect of digital reminiscence therapy on people with dementia: a pilot randomized controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. BMC geriatrics 2020-05-06 Digital health tools

    Digital RT proved an innovative approach to manage PWD and will thus help PWD achieve a better mood and have more opportunities to engage in social interactions.

  37. Prediction of dementia risk in low-income and middle-income countries (the 10/66 Study): an independent external validation of existing models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The Lancet. Global health 2020-04-01 Long-term cohort studies

    However, most people with dementia live in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), where dementia risk prediction research is almost non-existent and the ability of current models to predict dementia is unknown.

  38. Health Care Utilization, Care Satisfaction, and Health Status for Medicare Advantage and Traditional Medicare Beneficiaries With and Without Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2020-03-30 Health systems and care delivery

    The sample included 47 100 Medicare beneficiaries (25 900 women [54.9%]; mean [SD] age, 72.2 [11.4] years).

  39. Prevention of dementia in an ageing world: Evidence and biological rationale

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2020-03-19 Inflammation and the immune system

    As the population ages, the number of people with dementia is expected to increase in the coming decades, with consequences at the societal and individual levels.

  40. Sensing Technology to Monitor Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms and to Assess Treatment Response in People With Dementia. A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Frontiers in pharmacology 2020-02-04 Digital health tools

    Targeted clinical application of specific technologies is poised to revolutionize precision care in dementia as these technologies may be used both by patients and caregivers, and at a systems level to provide safe and effective care.

  41. Long-term study finds social contact reduces the risk of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 22 out of 100. Nursing and Residential Care 2020-02-02 Health systems and care delivery

    We know that lifestyle changes, such as to diet and exercise regimens, can have an impact on the risk of developing dementia.

  42. Clinical Presentation of COVID19 in Dementia Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. The journal of nutrition, health & aging 2020-01-01 Clinical safety

    The diagnosis of dementia, especially in the most advanced stages, represents an important risk factor for mortality in COVID-19 patients.

  43. Danggui-Shaoyao-San for dementia: A PRISMA-compliant systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Medicine 2020-01-01 Treatments

    These estimates suggest that DSS provides clinically important reductions in symptoms of AD and VD and can be a promising anti-dementia drug candidate.

  44. Development of Algorithmic Dementia Ascertainment for Racial/Ethnic Disparities Research in the US Health and Retirement Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) 2020-01-01 Disparities

    We believe these algorithms will be of immense value to dementia researchers interested in racial/ethnic disparities.

  45. Multidomain Interventions to Prevent Cognitive Impairment, Alzheimer's Disease, and Dementia: From FINGER to World-Wide FINGERS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2020-01-01 Prevention and risk

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) and dementia are a global public health priority, and prevention has been highlighted as a pivotal component in managing the dementia epidemic.

  46. Predicting Cognitive Impairment and Dementia: A Machine Learning Approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020-01-01 Digital health tools

    Higher-order factors (e.g., emotional distress, subjective health), which reflect complex interactions between various aspects of an individual, were more important than narrowly defined factors (e.g., clinical and behavioral indicators) when evaluated concurrently to predict cognitive impairment and dementia.

  47. The Prevalence of Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020-01-01 How common it is

    Dementia is a severe neurodegenerative disorder and it can be categorized into several subtypes by different pathogenic causes.

  48. Using Machine Learning to Predict Dementia from Neuropsychiatric Symptom and Neuroimaging Data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020-01-01 Digital health tools

    Baseline NPS, categorized for MBI domain and duration, have prognostic utility in addition to brain morphology measures for predicting diagnosis change using ML.

  49. Differentiating dementia disease subtypes with gait analysis: feasibility of wearable sensors?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Gait & posture 2019-12-28 Digital health tools

    This study found that a wearable device can be used to differentiate dementia disease subtypes.

  50. Machine learning models to predict onset of dementia: A label learning approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2019-12-10 Digital health tools

    The ability of the model to discriminate incident cases of dementia implies that it can be a worthwhile tool to screen patients for trial recruitment and patient management.

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