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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. Lifestyle for Brain Health (LIBRA): a new model for dementia prevention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2017-02-28 Prevention and risk

    Lifestyle for Brain Health (LIBRA) may help in identifying and monitoring risk status in dementia-prevention programmes, by targeting modifiable, lifestyle-related risk factors.

  2. Framing outcomes of post-diagnostic psychosocial interventions in dementia: the Adaptation-Coping Model and adjusting to change

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. Working with Older People 2017-02-27 Health systems and care delivery

    The translated Adaptation-Coping (adjusting to change) Model provides a way for service users (people with dementia and families) to conceptualise their journey with dementia post-diagnosis, and potentially provides service providers and researchers with aims for treatment and support.

  3. Early-onset and delayed-onset poststroke dementia - revisiting the mechanisms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2017-02-17 Prevention and risk

    Incident stroke has long been recognized to cause dementia shortly after the event.

  4. Survival after dementia diagnosis in five racial/ethnic groups

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2017-02-05 Disparities

    Survival after dementia diagnosis differs by race/ethnicity, with shortest survival among whites and longest among Asian Americans.

  5. Prevalence and determinants of undetected dementia in the community: a systematic literature review and a meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. BMJ open 2017-02-03 Getting a diagnosis

    The pooled rate of undetected dementia was 61.7% (95% CI 55.0% to 68.0%).

  6. Clinical practice with anti-dementia drugs: A revised (third) consensus statement from the British Association for Psychopharmacology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) 2017-01-20 Prevention and risk

    Though results of pivotal studies in early (prodromal/mild) Alzheimer's disease are awaited, results to date in more established (mild to moderate) Alzheimer's disease have been equivocal and no disease modifying agents are either licensed or can be currently recommended for clinical use.

  7. Post-stroke dementia - a comprehensive review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. BMC medicine 2017-01-18 Prevention and risk

    Quantitative imaging of cerebral blood flow and metabolism by positron emission tomography can differentiate between vascular dementia and degenerative dementia and show the interaction between vascular and metabolic changes.

  8. Behavioural and psychological symptoms in general hospital patients with dementia, distress for nursing staff and complications in care: results of the General Hospital Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences 2017-01-09 Clinical safety

    BPSD are common in older hospital patients with dementia and associated with considerable distress in nursing staff, as well as a wide range of special treatments needs and additional behavioural and medical complications.

  9. A Comparison of the Prevalence of Dementia in the United States in 2000 and 2012

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. JAMA Internal Medicine 2017-01-01 How common it is

    Comparing two nationally representative surveys of older Americans 12 years apart, researchers found the share of seniors with dementia fell substantially, from 11.6% in 2000 to 8.8% in 2012.

  10. A Comparison of the Prevalence of Dementia in the United States in 2000 and 2012

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. JAMA internal medicine 2017-01-01 How common it is

    The study cohorts had an average age of 75.0 years (95% CI, 74.8-75.2 years) in 2000 and 74.8 years (95% CI, 74.5-75.1 years) in 2012 (P = .24); 58.4% (95% CI, 57.3%-59.4%) of the 2000 cohort was female compared with 56.3% (95% CI, 55.5%-57.0%) of the 2012 cohort (P Conclusions and relevance The prevalence of dementia in the United States declined significantly between 2000 and 2012.

  11. Comorbidity and polypharmacy in people with dementia: insights from a large, population-based cross-sectional analysis of primary care data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Age and ageing 2017-01-01 Caregiving

    Such complex needs require an integrated response from general health professionals and multidisciplinary dementia specialists.

  12. Dementia Prevalence in a Rural Region of South Africa: A Cross-Sectional Community Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017-01-01 Disparities

    Dementia prevalence estimates were higher than expected for this low-income rural community.

  13. Qualitative Assessment of Verbal Fluency Performance in Frontotemporal Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders 2017-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Interrater reliability was high (median 0.98).

  14. An update on semantic dementia: genetics, imaging, and pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2016-12-05 Clinical safety

    Progressive and relatively circumscribed loss of semantic knowledge, referred to as semantic dementia (SD) which falls under the broader umbrella of frontotemporal dementia, was officially identified as a clinical syndrome less than 50 years ago.

  15. Antipsychotic prescribing patterns in a Medicare Advantage population of older individuals with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Mental Health 2016-11-12 Health systems and care delivery

    Of the 8688 individuals in the Medicare Advantage population with a dementia diagnosis, 1061 (12.2%) received an antipsychotic medication.

  16. Pervasive assistive technology for people with dementia: a UCD case

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Healthcare technology letters 2016-11-02 Digital health tools

    Smart mobile and wearable technology offers exciting opportunities to support people with dementia (PwD).

  17. The economic burden of dementia in China, 1990-2030: implications for health policy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2016-10-18 Caregiving

    The estimated total annual costs of dementia in China increased from 0.9 billion United States dollars (US$) in 1990 to US$ 47.2 billion in 2010 and were predicted to reach US$ 69.0 billion in 2020 and US$ 114.2 billion in 2030.

  18. Research priorities to reduce the global burden of dementia by 2025

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2016-10-11 Prevention and risk

    At the First WHO Ministerial Conference on Global Action Against Dementia in March, 2015, 160 delegates, including representatives from 80 WHO Member States and four UN agencies, agreed on a call for action to reduce the global burden of dementia by fostering a collective effort to advance research.

  19. The Diagnosis of Delirium Superimposed on Dementia: An Emerging Challenge

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2016-09-16 Clinical safety

    Delirium occurring in patients with dementia is referred to as delirium superimposed on dementia (DSD).

  20. Systematic review of dementia prevalence and incidence in United States race/ethnic populations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2016-09-04 Disparities

    Dementia prevalence rates reported for age 65+ years from a low of 6.3% in Japanese Americans, 12.9% in Caribbean Hispanic Americans, 12.2% in Guamanian Chamorro and ranged widely in African Americans from 7.2% to 20.9%.

  21. The worldwide costs of dementia 2015 and comparisons with 2010

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2016-08-29 How common it is

    Worldwide costs of dementia are enormous and still inequitably distributed.

  22. Geographical Variation in Antipsychotic Drug Use in Elderly Patients with Dementia: A Nationwide Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2016-08-27 Risk factors

    In 2012, the national prevalence of antipsychotic drug use was 20.7% for elderly patients with dementia, with a national incidence of 3.9%.

  23. Dementia in the acute hospital: the prevalence and clinical outcomes of acutely unwell patients with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. QJM : monthly journal of the Association of Physicians 2016-08-02 Disparities

    A diagnosis of dementia confers an increased risk of either death or further admission within the following 12 months, highlighting the need for better cognitive screening in the acute setting, as well as targeted intervention such as comprehensive geriatric assessment.

  24. Recent global trends in the prevalence and incidence of dementia, and survival with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2016-07-30 Prevention and risk

    We found no evidence to suggest that the current assumption of constant age-specific prevalence of dementia over time is ill-founded.

  25. Effectiveness of a 6-year multidomain vascular care intervention to prevent dementia (preDIVA): a cluster-randomised controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Lancet (London, England) 2016-07-26 How common it is

    A nurse-led, multidomain intervention did not result in a reduced incidence of all-cause dementia in an unselected population of older people.

  26. Evaluation of the Digital Alzheimer Center: Testing Usability and Usefulness of an Online Portal for Patients with Dementia and Their Carers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. JMIR research protocols 2016-07-21 Digital health tools

    In the usability assessment, eight categories of errors were distinguished, of which three were of critical, two of medium, and three of low severity.

  27. Anxiety as a Predictor for Cognitive Decline and Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2016-07-04 Risk factors

    Twenty studies met inclusion criteria.

  28. Psychosocial interventions for people with dementia: An overview and commentary on recent developments

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Dementia (London, England) 2016-07-04 Prevention trials

    An influential review in 2010 concluded that non-pharmacological multi-component interventions have positive effects on cognitive functioning, activities of daily living, behaviour and mood of people with dementia.

  29. Perceptions of dementia and use of services in minority ethnic communities: a scoping exercise

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Health & social care in the community 2016-06-09 Disparities

    Despite the rapidly ageing population and a predicted sevenfold increase in the prevalence of dementia in minority ethnic communities, people from these communities remain under-represented in specialist dementia services.

  30. Acute hospital dementia care: results from a national audit

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. BMC geriatrics 2016-05-31 Digital health tools

    Most patients received physical assessments, including mobility (89 %), continence (84 %) and pressure sore risk (87 %); however assessment of pain (75 %), and particularly functioning (36 %) was poor.

  31. Prevalence of dementia subtypes in United States Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries, 2011-2013

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2016-05-10 Getting a diagnosis

    This study is the first to document concurrent prevalence of primary dementia subtypes among this US population.

  32. Healthy cognitive aging and dementia prevention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. The American psychologist 2016-05-01 Prevention trials

    Behavioral prevention strategies can help maintain high levels of cognition and functional integrity, and can reduce the social, medical, and economic burden associated with cognitive aging and age-associated neurodegenerative diseases.

  33. A two decade dementia incidence comparison from the Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies I and II

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Nature communications 2016-04-19 How common it is

    Dramatic global increases in future numbers of people with dementia have been predicted.

  34. The Prevalence and Incidence of Dementia Due to Alzheimer's Disease: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. The Canadian journal of neurological sciences. Le journal canadien des sciences neurologiques 2016-04-01 Caregiving

    The burden of AD dementia is substantial.

  35. The Prevalence and Incidence of Frontotemporal Dementia: a Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. The Canadian journal of neurological sciences. Le journal canadien des sciences neurologiques 2016-04-01 Caregiving

    Population-based estimates for the epidemiology of FTD varied widely in the included studies.

  36. Temporal Trends and Geographic Variations in Dementia Mortality in China Between 2006 and 2012

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders 2016-03-19 Risk factors

    Dementia mortality varied over 2-fold between DSPs (median rate ratio: 2.59).

  37. Behavioural and psychological symptoms in dementia and the challenges for family carers: systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science 2016-03-17 Caregiving

    Family carers' perceptions of BPSD as challenging are associated with a sense of a declining relationship, transgressions against social norms and underlying beliefs that people with dementia inevitably lose their 'personhood'.

  38. Comparing the Effects of Multisensory Stimulation and Individualized Music Sessions on Elderly People with Severe Dementia: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2016-03-01 Treatments

    The objective of this study was to compare the effects of a multisensory stimulation environment (MSSE) and individualized music sessions on agitation, emotional and cognitive status, and dementia severity in a sample of institutionalized patients with severe dementia.

  39. Inequalities in dementia incidence between six racial and ethnic groups over 14 years

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Alzheimer's & Dementia 2016-03 How common it is

    This large study followed over 274,000 members of a single California health system for 14 years and found striking differences in dementia rates by race and ethnicity.

  40. MRI visual rating scales in the diagnosis of dementia: evaluation in 184 post-mortem confirmed cases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2016-03-01 Digital health tools

    Additionally, the performance of each scale to predict dementia pathology both individually and in combination was evaluated using a support vector classifier, which was compared with expert scan assessment to estimate clinical value.

  41. Inequalities in dementia incidence between six racial and ethnic groups over 14 years

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2016-02-11 Disparities

    Dementia rates varied over 60% between groups, providing a comprehensive benchmark for the NAPA goal of reducing disparities.

  42. Time to diagnosis in young-onset dementia and its determinants: the INSPIRED study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2016-01-25 Caregiving

    Factors impacting on time to diagnosis vary with the stage of diagnosis in YOD.

  43. Effectiveness of interventions to directly support food and drink intake in people with dementia: systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. BMC geriatrics 2016-01-22 Clinical safety

    We found no definitive evidence on effectiveness, or lack of effectiveness, of specific interventions but studies were small and short term.

  44. Statins for the prevention of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2016-01-04 Prevention and risk

    Main results We included two trials with 26,340 participants aged 40 to 82 years of whom 11,610 were aged 70 or older.

  45. The neuropathology and cerebrovascular mechanisms of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2016-01-01 How common it is

    The prevalence of dementia is increasing in our aging population at an alarming rate.

  46. Why has therapy development for dementia failed in the last two decades?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2015-12-19 Brain tissue and pathology

    The success rate of the pharmaceutical research and development (R&D) for dementia drugs has been abysmally low, in the last two decades.

  47. Vascular cognitive impairment and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Biochimica et biophysica acta 2015-12-15 Prevention and risk

    Vascular contributions to cognitive impairment are receiving heightened attention as potentially modifiable factors for dementias of later life.

  48. Development of interventions for the secondary prevention of Alzheimer's dementia: the European Prevention of Alzheimer's Dementia (EPAD) project

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. The lancet. Psychiatry 2015-12-10 Prevention and risk

    Alzheimer's dementia affects more than 40 million people worldwide with substantial increases in prevalence anticipated.

  49. Nonpharmacological Interventions to Reduce Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. BioMed research international 2015-11-29 Clinical safety

    Studies are heterogeneous in many aspects, including size sample, intervention, and instruments of measures.

  50. Spectrum of cognition short of dementia: Framingham Heart Study and Mayo Clinic Study of Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurology 2015-10-09 Long-term cohort studies

    We quantitated risk of progression to dementia in elderly persons without dementia from 2 population-based studies, the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) and Mayo Clinic Study of Aging (MCSA), aged 70 to 89 years at enrollment.

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