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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. Racial disparities and temporal trends in dementia misdiagnosis risk in the United States

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2019-12-09 Disparities

    Our results suggest that efforts to reduce racial disparities in underdiagnosis are warranted.

  2. Predicting dementia with routine care EMR data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Artificial intelligence in medicine 2019-12-05 Digital health tools

    Our aim is to develop a machine learning (ML) model that can predict dementia in a general patient population from multiple health care institutions one year and three years prior to the onset of the disease without any additional monitoring or screening.

  3. Identifying undetected dementia in UK primary care patients: a retrospective case-control study comparing machine-learning and standard epidemiological approaches

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. BMC medical informatics and decision making 2019-12-02 Digital health tools

    Our model could aid GPs or health service planners with the early detection of dementia.

  4. We were unable to detect a difference in HRQOL for screening for ADRD among older adults.

  5. From Stroke to Dementia: a Comprehensive Review Exposing Tight Interactions Between Stroke and Amyloid-β Formation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Translational stroke research 2019-11-28 Disease mechanisms

    Stroke and Alzheimer's disease (AD) are cerebral pathologies with high socioeconomic impact that can occur together and mutually interact.

  6. Review of Gait, Cognition, and Fall Risks with Implications for Fall Prevention in Older Adults with Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2019-11-19 Clinical safety

    Older people with cognitive impairment are at increased risk of falls; however, fall prevention strategies have limited success in this population.

  7. Neuroimaging of Diseases Causing Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Neurologic clinics 2019-11-07 Biomarkers

    Neuroimaging provides a window on the biological events underlying dementia.

  8. An audit of dementia education and training in UK health and social care: a comparison with national benchmark standards

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. BMC health services research 2019-10-21 End-of-life care

    The development of new and existing training and education should take account of subjects that are currently underrepresented and ensure that training reflects the Training Standard Framework and evidence regarding best practice for delivery.

  9. Barriers and facilitators to development and implementation of a rural primary health care intervention for dementia: a process evaluation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. BMC health services research 2019-10-17 Disparities

    Across all domains, 14 constructs influenced development and implementation.

  10. Trends and Factors Associated with Place of Death for Individuals with Dementia in the United States

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2019-10-14 Disparities

    As ADRD deaths at home increase, the need for caregiver support and home-based palliative care may become more critical.

  11. Predicting incident dementia 3-8 years after brief cognitive tests in the UK Biobank prospective study of 500,000 people

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2019-10-13 Long-term cohort studies

    Prospective studies reporting associations between cognitive performance and subsequent incident dementia have been subject to attrition bias.

  12. Statistical methods for dementia risk prediction and recommendations for future work: A systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2019-10-08 Digital health tools

    We identified three major methodological weaknesses: (1) over-reliance on one data source, (2) poor verification of statistical assumptions of Cox and logistic regression, and (3) lack of validation.

  13. Diagnosis and Management of Dementia: Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. JAMA 2019-10-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Dementia is commonly associated with more than 1 neuropathology, usually Alzheimer disease with cerebrovascular pathology.

  14. Maintaining Social Connections in Dementia: A Qualitative Synthesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Qualitative health research 2019-09-25 Digital health tools

    The clinical symptoms of dementia include difficulty with speech, poor short-term memory, and changes in behavior.

  15. Understanding neurodegeneration after traumatic brain injury: from mechanisms to clinical trials in dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2019-09-21 Getting a diagnosis

    Traumatic brain injury (TBI) leads to increased rates of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease.

  16. Quantitative gait, cognitive decline, and incident dementia: The Rotterdam Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2019-09-09 Long-term cohort studies

    Poor gait has recently emerged as a potential prodromal feature of cognitive decline and dementia.

  17. Dementia in China: epidemiology, clinical management, and research advances

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2019-09-04 Getting a diagnosis

    China has the largest population of patients with dementia in the world, imposing a heavy burden on the public and health care systems.

  18. 159 Geographic Accessibility and Capacity of Day Care Services for People with Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Age and Ageing 2019-09-01 Risk factors

    Day care has a place in the menu of service for people with dementia living in the community.

  19. Geographical Variation in Opioid Use in Elderly Patients with Dementia: A Nationwide Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2019-07-12 Risk factors

    32.5% of elderly with dementia and 16.9% without were treated with an opioid in 2015.

  20. Epidemiology of Vascular Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology 2019-07-11 Prevention and risk

    The notion of what qualifies as vascular dementia has varied greatly since the first mention of dementia after apoplexy in ancient literature.

  21. Detection of probable dementia cases in undiagnosed patients using structured and unstructured electronic health records

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. BMC medical informatics and decision making 2019-07-09 Digital health tools

    Dementia is underdiagnosed, and thus, ICD codes alone cannot serve as a gold standard for diagnosis.

  22. Identifying incident dementia by applying machine learning to a very large administrative claims dataset

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. PloS one 2019-07-05 Digital health tools

    Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) are highly prevalent conditions, and prior efforts to develop predictive models have relied on demographic and clinical risk factors using traditional logistical regression methods.

  23. Age-related Hearing Loss and Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2019-07-01 Prevention and risk

    Dementia is a devastating disease and global health challenge that is highly prevalent worldwide.

  24. P3‐617: PATHWAY TO DIAGNOSIS: PERSONS WITH DEMENTIA AND CAREGIVER EXPERIENCES REACHING A DIAGNOSIS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 29 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2019-07-01 Risk factors

    Overall, the pathway to diagnosis (i.e., time from signs/symptoms recognition to diagnosis) ranged from 2 to 15 years.

  25. The Healthy Brain Initiative: The Public Health Road Map for State and National Partnerships was recently updated for years 2018-2022, which includes recommendations for implementing emergency preparedness (EP) measures at the state and local levels with attention to the unique needs of people living with Alzheimer's disease and other related dementias (ADRD).

  26. Preventing dementia by preventing stroke: The Berlin Manifesto

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2019-07-01 Prevention and risk

    The incidence of stroke and dementia are diverging across the world, rising for those in low- and middle-income countries and falling in those in high-income countries.

  27. The implementation represented radical innovation and required far more resources than the incremental changes anticipated by the participants.

  28. Analysis of dementia in the US population using Medicare claims: Insights from linked survey and administrative claims data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2019-06-06 Disparities

    Survey-based cognitive tests and claims-based dementia diagnosis yielded equal prevalence estimates, yet only half were identified by both measures.

  29. Measuring gait speed to better identify prodromal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Experimental gerontology 2019-06-04 Caregiving

    Slow gait speed has been shown to predict incident dementia and cognitive decline in older individuals.

  30. Relationship of traumatic brain injury to chronic mental health problems and dementia in military veterans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 2019-05-26 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an unfortunately common event in military life.

  31. An update on genetic frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2019-05-22 Prevention and risk

    Grey matter changes on MRI and hypometabolism on FDG-PET are seen at least 10 years before symptom onset with white matter abnormalities seen earlier, but the pattern and exact timing of changes differ between different genetic groups.

  32. Adherence to multidomain interventions for dementia prevention: Data from the FINGER and MAPT trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2019-04-30 Prevention trials

    Reducing participant burden, while ensuring that technological tools are suitable for older individuals, maintaining face-to-face contacts, and taking into account participant characteristics may increase adherence in future trials.

  33. A Dementia Classification Framework Using Frequency and Time-Frequency Features Based on EEG Signals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 2019-04-04 Digital health tools

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) accounts for 60%-70% of all dementia cases, and clinical diagnosis at its early stage is extremely difficult.

  34. Geographical Variation in the Diagnostic Rate and Quality of Dementia Diagnoses

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2019-04-02 Risk factors

    The national prevalence and incidence of registered dementia diagnoses was 3.0% and 0.5%, respectively.

  35. Mobile-Health Applications for the Efficient Delivery of Health Care Facility to People with Dementia (PwD) and Support to Their Carers: A Survey

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. BioMed research international 2019-03-27 Prevention trials

    Dementia directly influences the quality of life of a person suffering from this chronic illness.

  36. Dementia imaging in clinical practice: a European-wide survey of 193 centres and conclusions by the ESNR working group

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neuroradiology 2019-03-09 Disparities

    Current practice in dementia imaging is fairly homogeneous across Europe, in terms of image acquisition and image interpretation.

  37. Comparison of Methods for Algorithmic Classification of Dementia Status in the Health and Retirement Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) 2019-03-01 Disparities

    Algorithmic diagnoses provide a cost-effective way to conduct dementia research.

  38. Dementia Mortality in the United States, 2000-2017

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. National vital statistics reports : from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System 2019-03-01 Disparities

    In 2017, a total of 261,914 deaths attributable to dementia as an underlying cause of death were reported in the United States.

  39. Treatment patterns and burden of behavioral disturbances in patients with dementia in the United States: a claims database analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. BMC neurology 2019-02-28 End-of-life care

    Patients with dementia with BD had a higher prevalence of comorbidities, greater use of comedications, and greater healthcare utilization and costs than patients with dementia without BD.

  40. Identifying dementia outcomes in UK Biobank: a validation study of primary care, hospital admissions and mortality data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. European journal of epidemiology 2019-02-26 Lewy body dementia

    Prospective, population-based studies that recruit participants in mid-life are valuable resources for dementia research.

  41. Combining modifiable risk factors and risk of dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. BMJ open 2019-01-25 Caregiving

    The strength of the reported associations, the consistency across studies and the suggestion of a dose response supports a need to keep modifiable risk factor exposure to a minimum and to avoid exposure to additional modifiable risks.

  42. Prediction models for dementia and neuropathology in the oldest old: the Vantaa 85+ cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2019-01-22 Digital health tools

    Differences between predictors for dementia in younger old versus oldest old populations, as well as for dementia versus pathology, should be considered more carefully in future studies.

  43. Systematic review and meta-analysis of the prevalence of cognitive impairment no dementia in the first year post-stroke

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. European stroke journal 2019-01-16 Vascular contributions

    Twenty-three articles were included in the systematic review, and 21 in the meta-analysis.

  44. Alcohol use and dementia: a systematic scoping review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2019-01-05 Prevention and risk

    Reducing heavy alcohol use may be an effective dementia prevention strategy.

  45. Neuropsychology of aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Handbook of clinical neurology 2019-01-01 Prevention trials

    All people want to age "successfully," maintaining functional capacity and quality of life as they reach advanced age.

  46. Subjective cognitive decline and rates of incident Alzheimer's disease and non-Alzheimer's disease dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2018-12-13 How common it is

    SCD can precede both AD and non-AD dementia.

  47. Development and Validation of a Dementia Risk Prediction Model in the General Population: An Analysis of Three Longitudinal Studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. The American journal of psychiatry 2018-12-11 Long-term cohort studies

    Identification of individuals at high risk of dementia is essential for development of prevention strategies, but reliable tools are lacking for risk stratification in the population.

  48. Neuroimaging and Machine Learning for Dementia Diagnosis: Recent Advancements and Future Prospects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. IEEE reviews in biomedical engineering 2018-12-11 Digital health tools

    Dementia, a chronic and progressive cognitive declination of brain function caused by disease or impairment, is becoming more prevalent due to the aging population.

  49. In-hospital dementia-related deaths following implementation of the national dementia plan: observational study of national death certificates from 1996 to 2016

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. BMJ Open 2018-12-01 Health systems and care delivery

    The annual number of deaths at hospital was consistently increased over time from 1996 to 2016 (age-adjusted OR: 6.01; 95% CI 5.81 to 6.21 versus home deaths).

  50. Dementia Prevalence in Older Adults: Variation by Race/Ethnicity and Immigrant Status

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2018-11-28 Disparities

    Immigrant status may have complex effects on dementia risk.

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