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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. Prediction of dementia by subjective memory impairment: effects of severity and temporal association with cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Archives of general psychiatry 2010-04-01 How common it is

    The prediction of dementia in AD by SMI with subsequent amnestic MCI supports the model of a consecutive 3-stage clinical manifestation of AD from SMI via MCI to dementia.

  2. What is semantic dementia?: a cohort study of diagnostic features and clinical boundaries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2010-04-01 Digital health tools

    Semantic dementia is distinguishable from other presentations of frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer disease, not only by fluent speech and impaired comprehension without loss of episodic memory, syntax, and phonology but also by empty, garrulous speech with thematic perseverations, semantic paraphasias, and poor category fluency.

  3. Prevalence of dementia disorders in the oldest-old: an autopsy study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2010-03-04 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The prevalence of Alzheimer disease (AD) and vascular dementia (VD) increases with advancing age, but less so after age 90 years.

  4. A systematic review and meta-analysis of ethnic differences in use of dementia treatment, care, and research

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2010-03-01 Disparities

    The number of people with dementia from minority ethnic (ME) groups in western countries is projected to rise dramatically, and they may be less able to access dementia services.

  5. Measuring disability across cultures--the psychometric properties of the WHODAS II in older people from seven low- and middle-income countries. The 10/66 Dementia Research Group population-based survey

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. International journal of methods in psychiatric research 2010-03-01 Disparities

    We evaluated the psychometric properties of the 12-item interviewer-administered screener version of the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule-version II (WHODAS II) among older people living in seven low- and middle-income countries.

  6. Rural-Urban Differences in Preventable Hospitalizations Among Community-Dwelling Veterans With Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. The Journal of Rural Health 2010-03-01 Risk factors

    Thirteen percent of care recipients had at least 1 ACSH.

  7. Sleep disorders in aging and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The journal of nutrition, health & aging 2010-03-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    This paper reviews the characteristics of sleep disorders found in people at a greater risk of dementia: the elderly adult, patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and those with neurodegenerative diseases.

  8. DHA may prevent age-related dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of nutrition 2010-02-24 Disease mechanisms

    The risk for dementia, a major contributor to incapacitation and institutionalization, rises rapidly as we age, doubling every 5 y after age 65.

  9. Interethnic Differences in Dementia Epidemiology: Global and Asia-Pacific Perspectives

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders 2010-01-01 Risk factors

    The burden of dementia will continue to rise globally, particularly in developing countries, many of which lie in the Asia-Pacific region.

  10. Targets for the prevention of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2010-01-01 Prevention trials

    The prevalence of dementia is expected to increase dramatically over the upcoming decades due to the aging population.

  11. Hypertension and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. American journal of hypertension 2009-11-19 Prevention and risk

    Although hypertension is well known as a cause of vascular dementia (VaD), recent findings highlight the role of hypertension in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) as well as mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  12. Changing perspectives regarding late-life dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2009-11-17 Brain tissue and pathology

    Individuals over 80 years of age represent the most rapidly growing segment of the population, and late-life dementia has become a major public health concern worldwide.

  13. Epidemiological studies of the effect of stroke on incident dementia: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Stroke 2009-11-12 Vascular contributions

    The effect of stroke on dementia incidence in the population is not explained by common risk factors.

  14. Contribution of chronic diseases to disability in elderly people in countries with low and middle incomes: a 10/66 Dementia Research Group population-based survey

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Lancet (London, England) 2009-11-01 Getting a diagnosis

    When zero inflation was taken into account, between-site differences in disability scores were largely attributable to compositional differences in health and sociodemographic characteristics.

  15. Ethnic differences in beliefs regarding Alzheimer disease among dementia family caregivers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2009-11-01 Disparities

    Increased public education about AD is needed in these communities.

  16. Prevalence of dementia and cognitive impairment in Southeastern Spain: the Ariadna study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Acta neurologica Scandinavica 2009-11-01 Disparities

    The prevalence of dementia was low, despite a high prevalence of aMCI and CIND.

  17. Chronic disease prevalence and care among the elderly in urban and rural Beijing, China - a 10/66 Dementia Research Group cross-sectional survey

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. BMC public health 2009-10-21 Disparities

    Apparent better health in Daxing might be explained by under-diagnosis, under-reporting or selective mortality.

  18. Prevalence of dementia and major dementia subtypes in Spanish populations: A reanalysis of dementia prevalence surveys, 1990-2008

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. BMC Neurology 2009-10-19 Risk factors

    The reanalyzed study population (aged 70 year and above) was composed of Central and North-Eastern Spanish sub-populations obtained from 9 surveys and totaled 12,232 persons and 1,194 cases of dementia (707 of Alzheimer's disease, 238 of vascular dementia).

  19. Missed and delayed diagnosis of dementia in primary care: prevalence and contributing factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2009-10-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Dementia is a growing public health problem for which early detection may be beneficial.

  20. Promising strategies for the prevention of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2009-10-01 Prevention and risk

    The incidence and prevalence of dementia are expected to increase several-fold in the coming decades.

  21. Prevalence, incidence, and factors associated with pre-stroke and post-stroke dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 80 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2009-09-24 Prevention and risk

    We identified 22 hospital-based and eight population-based eligible cohorts (7511 patients) described in 73 papers.

  22. Population normative data for the 10/66 Dementia Research Group cognitive test battery from Latin America, India and China: a cross-sectional survey

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. BMC neurology 2009-08-26 Disparities

    Cognitive assessment is a basic element for dementia diagnosis.

  23. Primary Care Physicians' Dementia Care Practices: Evidence of Geographic Variation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. The Gerontologist 2009-07-13 Risk factors

    A total of 422 eligible PCPs responded. Nearly 90% of PCPs prescribed donepezil in the previous year for their dementia patients.

  24. Dementia in the acute hospital: prospective cohort study of prevalence and mortality

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science 2009-07-01 How common it is

    The rising prevalence of dementia will have an impact on acute hospitals.

  25. Different cognitive profiles for single compared with recurrent fallers without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neuropsychology 2009-07-01 Clinical safety

    Relationships between self-reported retrospective falls and cognitive measures (executive function, reaction time [RT], processing speed, working memory, visual attention) were examined in a population based sample of older adults (n = 658).

  26. The relation between content and structure in language production: an analysis of speech errors in semantic dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Brain and language 2009-05-27 Digital health tools

    In order to explore the impact of a degraded semantic system on the structure of language production, we analysed transcripts from autobiographical memory interviews to identify naturally-occurring speech errors by eight patients with semantic dementia (SD) and eight age-matched normal speakers.

  27. Incidence and prediction of falls in dementia: a prospective study in older people

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. PloS one 2009-05-13 Prevention and risk

    The management of symptomatic orthostatic hypotension, autonomic symptoms and depression, and the encouragement of physical activity may provide the core elements for the most fruitful strategy to reduce falls in people with dementia.

  28. Age, neuropathology, and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. The New England journal of medicine 2009-05-01 Caregiving

    The association between the pathological features of Alzheimer's disease and dementia is stronger in younger old persons than in older old persons.

  29. The prevention of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2009-05-01 Prevention trials

    It may be that risk and protective factors vary with age, however, in the absence of prophylactic treatment it seems likely that the maintenance of a healthy lifestyle may represent the best option with regard to the prevention of dementia.

  30. Dysphagia in patients with dementia: Alzheimer versus vascular

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2009-04-01 Clinical safety

    Patients with dementia develop dysphagia some time during the clinical course of their disease.

  31. Cognitive training for early-stage Alzheimer's disease and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of gerontological nursing 2009-03-01 Prevention trials

    The purpose of this article is to critically review and synthesize the literature on the effects of nonpharmacological cognitive training on dementia symptoms in early-stage Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementia.

  32. Prevalence, correlates and course of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia in the population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science 2009-03-01 Caregiving

    Behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia affect nearly all people with dementia.

  33. Racial/ethnic disparities in medication use among veterans with hypertension and dementia: a national cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. The Annals of pharmacotherapy 2009-02-03 Disparities

    Adherence rates for a number of antihypertensive and dementia drugs are lower for minorities compared with whites.

  34. Predictors of nursing home admission for persons with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Medical care 2009-02-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Several results seemed to challenge conventional assumptions of what precipitates NHA among persons with dementia.

  35. Rapidly progressive neurodegenerative dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2009-02-01 Disease mechanisms

    Based on this cohort, although CJD is the most likely cause of a rapidly progressive neurodegenerative dementia, frontotemporal lobar degeneration with motor neuron degeneration, diffuse Lewy body disease, tauopathies, and Alzheimer disease can also cause a rapidly progressive dementia.

  36. Improving access to dementia care: development and evaluation of a rural and remote memory clinic

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Aging & mental health 2009-01-01 Disparities

    The availability, accessibility and acceptability of services are critical factors in rural health service delivery.

  37. The accuracy of Medicare claims as an epidemiological tool: the case of dementia revisited

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2009-01-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Our study estimates the sensitivity and specificity of Medicare claims to identify clinically-diagnosed dementia, and documents how errors in dementia assessment affect dementia cost estimates.

  38. The neuropathology of older persons with and without dementia from community versus clinic cohorts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2009-01-01 How common it is

    Community-based cohorts of older persons may differ neuropathologically from clinic-based cohorts.

  39. Prevalence and treatment of neuropsychiatric symptoms in advanced dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of gerontological nursing 2008-12-01 End-of-life care

    Neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) are common in dementia, although little is known about their prevalence and treatment near the end of life.

  40. General practitioners' experiences and understandings of diagnosing dementia: factors impacting on early diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Social science & medicine (1982) 2008-10-20 Disparities

    This article reports findings from three linked qualitative research projects that explored how Australian general practitioners (GPs) spoke about their experiences in diagnosing dementia and their views on early diagnosis and barriers towards early diagnosis.

  41. Recurrent seizures in patients with dementia: frequency, seizure types, and treatment outcome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Epilepsy & behavior : E&B 2008-10-08 Brain scans and imaging

    The present study indicated that most individuals with the comorbidity of epilepsy and dementia have complex partial seizures that may be adequately controlled on AED therapy.

  42. Accuracy of dementia diagnosis: a direct comparison between radiologists and a computerized method

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2008-10-03 Digital health tools

    There has been recent interest in the application of machine learning techniques to neuroimaging-based diagnosis.

  43. Attitudes and support needs of Black Caribbean, south Asian and White British carers of people with dementia in the UK

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science 2008-09-01 Disparities

    The findings suggest that specific cultural attitudes towards the caregiving role have important implications for how carers can best be supported.

  44. Racial and ethnic disparities in the treatment of dementia among Medicare beneficiaries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 2008-09-01 Disparities

    After adjusting for demographics, socioeconomics, health care access and utilization, comorbidities, and service year, we found that anti-dementia medication use was approximately 30% higher among non-Hispanic Whites compared to other racial/ethnic groups (PR=0.73, 95% confidence interval [CI]=0.59, 0.91).

  45. Measuring primary care patients' attitudes about dementia screening

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2008-08-01 Disparities

    The PRISM-PC questionnaire captures primary care patients' acceptance, perceived harms, and perceived benefits of dementia screening.

  46. Staging dementia using Clinical Dementia Rating Scale Sum of Boxes scores: a Texas Alzheimer's research consortium study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2008-08-01 How common it is

    Optimal ranges of CDR-SOB scores corresponding to the global CDR scores were 0.5 to 4.0 for a global score of 0.5, 4.5 to 9.0 for a global score of 1.0, 9.5 to 15.5 for a global score of 2.0, and 16.0 to 18.0 for a global score of 3.0.

  47. Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia in developing countries: prevalence, management, and risk factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2008-07-28 Prevention and risk

    Despite mortality due to communicable diseases, poverty, and human conflicts, dementia incidence is destined to increase in the developing world in tandem with the ageing population.

  48. Prevalence of dementia in Latin America, India, and China: a population-based cross-sectional survey

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Lancet (London, England) 2008-07-25 Getting a diagnosis

    The prevalence of DSM-IV dementia varied widely, from 0.3% (95% CI 0.1-0.5) in rural India to 6.3% (5.0-7.7) in Cuba.

  49. Dementia and dysphagia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.) 2008-07-01 Clinical safety

    In 2004, more than 12% of the population in the United States was aged 65 years or older.

  50. Detecting dementia with the mini-mental state examination in highly educated individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2008-07-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Older patients with a college education who present with complaints of cognitive decline (reported by themselves or others) and score less than 27 on the MMSE are at a greater risk of being diagnosed with dementia and should be referred for a comprehensive dementia evaluation, including formal neuropsychological testing.

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