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prevalence

1,246 studies tagged prevalence, dated 1968-07-01 to 2026-09-23. Bibliography: BibTeX (.bib) · RIS (.ris)

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. Falls in dementia patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The Gerontologist 1993-04-01 Clinical safety

    We analyzed the number and nature of falls in a nursing home for elderly patients with dementia.

  2. A population-based study of dementia in 85-year-olds

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The New England journal of medicine 1993-01-01 How common it is

    Dementia was present in nearly a third of unselected 85-year-olds in Sweden.

  3. Education and the prevalence of dementia and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neurology 1993 Risk factors

  4. Assessment of behavioral problems in dementia: the revised memory and behavior problems checklist

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Psychology and aging 1992-12-01 Caregiving

    The Revised Memory and Behavior Problems Checklist (RMBPC), a 24-item, caregiver-report measure of observable behavioral problems in dementia patients, provides 1 total score and 3 subscale scores for patient problems (memory-related, depression, and disruptive behaviors) and parallel scores for caregiver reaction.

  5. Comparisons of verbal fluency tasks in the detection of dementia of the Alzheimer type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Archives of neurology 1992-12-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The performances of 89 patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) and 53 demographically matched elderly normal control subjects were compared on four verbal fluency measures (category, letter, first names, and supermarket fluency).

  6. Instrumental activities of daily living as a screening tool for cognitive impairment and dementia in elderly community dwellers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 1992-11-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The four IADL score could be incorporated into the screening procedure for dementia in elderly community dwellers.

  7. Dementia after stroke: baseline frequency, risks, and clinical features in a hospitalized cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 1992-06-01 Vascular contributions

    We determined the frequency of dementia in a cohort of 251 patients aged greater than or equal to 60 years hospitalized with acute ischemic stroke, based on examinations performed 3 months after stroke onset.

  8. Diagnosis of dementia in a heterogeneous population. Development of a neuropsychological paradigm-based diagnosis of dementia and quantified correction for the effects of education

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Archives of neurology 1992-05-01 Getting a diagnosis

    A brief diagnostic battery of neuropsychological tests was developed for a large-scale epidemiological study of dementia.

  9. Testing for limits of cognitive reserve capacity: a promising strategy for early diagnosis of dementia?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Journal of gerontology 1992-05-01 Prevention trials

    Examination of the range and limits of cognitive reserve capacity (plasticity) by means of cognitive training is proffered as a promising diagnostic strategy for the early (premorbid) identification of dementia, particularly Alzheimer's disease, in nonclinical populations.

  10. Prevalence of dementia and probable senile dementia of the Alzheimer type in the Framingham Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 1992-01-01 How common it is

    We determined the prevalence of dementia and probable senile dementia of the Alzheimer type (SDAT) for biennial Exam 17 of the Framingham cohort (1982/1983).

  11. Estimated prevalence of dementia among elderly black and white community residents

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Archives of neurology 1991-06-01 Disparities

    A stratified random sample of 83 black and 81 white community residents aged 65 years and older in a five-county area in the Piedmont region of North Carolina was evaluated for dementia, using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition, and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke--Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association criteria.

  12. Epidemiology of Multi-Infarct Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders 1991-01-01 Risk factors

    Multi-infarct dementia (MID), thought to result from the cumulative effect of repeated episodes of cerebral infarction, represents a sizable proportion of the dementia cases in the population.

  13. A MODEL FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF PEOPLE WITH DIAGNOSED DEMENTIA IN COUNTRY AREAS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 29 out of 100. Australasian Journal on Ageing 1990-11-01 Health systems and care delivery

    The Wingham Assessment and Rehabilitation Unit is part of the Manning Valley Area Health Service in New England, New South Wales.

  14. Survival of outpatients with Alzheimer-type dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Annals of internal medicine 1990-09-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    One hundred and twenty-six patients diagnosed with Alzheimer-type dementia were selected from among 200 consecutive outpatients evaluated for suspected dementia from 1980 to 1982.

  15. Longitudinal evaluation of dementia of the Alzheimer type: a comparison of 3 standardized mental status examinations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neurology 1990-08-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    We administered 3 commonly employed tests of mental status (the Information-Memory-Concentration test [IMC], the Mini-Mental State Examination [MMSE], and the Dementia Rating Scale [DRS]) to 92 patients with probable dementia of the Alzheimer type.

  16. Prevalence of clinically diagnosed Alzheimer's disease and other dementing disorders: a door-to-door survey in Appignano, Macerata Province, Italy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neurology 1990-04-01 Disparities

    The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of dementia in an Italian population using a door-to-door 2-phase design.

  17. The prevalence of dementia and Alzheimer's disease in Shanghai, China: impact of age, gender, and education

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1990-04-01 Getting a diagnosis

    We report the prevalence rates for dementia and Alzheimer's disease (AD) obtained from a probability sample survey of 5,055 noninstitutionalized older persons in Shanghai, China.

  18. Dementia lacking distinctive histologic features: a common non-Alzheimer degenerative dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neurology 1990-02-01 Clinical safety

    From a series of 460 dementia patients referred to a regional brain bank, 14 (3%) patients had a pathologic diagnosis of primary degeneration of the brain involving multiple sites (frontoparietal cortex, striatum, medial thalamus, substantia nigra, and hypoglossal nucleus), with cell loss and astrocytosis.

  19. Sensitivity and specificity of standardized screens of cognitive impairment and dementia among elderly black and white community residents

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of clinical epidemiology 1990-01-01 Disparities

    Six standardized published measures of cognitive function were evaluated as screens of dementia in a sample of 164 (83 black, 81 white) community residents aged 65 and over selected from the Duke University EPESE (Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly), a biracial cohort of 4164 residents in a five county area of piedmont North Carolina.

  20. An epidemiological study of dementia in a rural population of elderly women

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science 1989-08-01 Disparities

    A study of 365 women aged 70-79 in a rural community was carried out using the Cambridge Examination of Mental Disorders in the Elderly (CAMDEX).

  21. Radiation-induced dementia in patients cured of brain metastases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 1989-06-01 How common it is

    When a patient with cancer develops a brain metastasis, death is usually imminent, but aggressive treatment in some patients with limited or no systemic disease yields long-term survival.

  22. Divided attention, as measured by dichotic speech performance, in dementia of the Alzheimer type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Archives of neurology 1989-03-01 Digital health tools

    To determine if impaired dichotic performance in patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type is due to the inability to divide attention or the inability to perceive degraded auditory stimuli, we measured performance on tasks of both dichotic and degraded monotic speech materials.

  23. Instruments for screening for depression and dementia in a long-term care facility

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 1989-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The high prevalence of mental disorders such as depression and dementia in institutionalized elderly patients warrants screening for psychiatric diagnosis in patients newly admitted to long-term care facilities.

  24. Motor vehicle crashes in dementia of the Alzheimer type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1988-12-01 Clinical safety

    To assess the occurrence and related features of motor vehicle crashes in patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) we studied 30 patients who had been followed longitudinally and 20 healthy age-matched control subjects.

  25. Screening for dementia by memory testing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurology 1988-06-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Enhanced cued recall provides a simple and clinically useful memory test for identifying dementia in the elderly.

  26. Usefulness of mortality data in determining the geography and time trends of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 1988-06-01 Risk factors

    Fewer than 25% of people diagnosed during life as being demented were found to have this diagnosis coded as the underlying cause of death.

  27. Dementia of frontal lobe type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 1988-03-01 Digital health tools

    A significant proportion of patients with presenile dementia due to primary cerebral atrophy do not have Alzheimer's disease.

  28. Cornell scale for depression in dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Biological Psychiatry 1988-02-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia is introduced.

  29. The prevalence of dementia: a quantitative integration of the literature

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica 1987-11-01 How common it is

    Data from studies of dementia prevalence between 1945 to 1985 were analyzed statistically.

  30. Senile dementia of the Alzheimer type without neocortical neurofibrillary tangles

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 1987-05-01 Disparities

    Senile dementia of the Alzheimer type (SDAT) is typified pathologically by neuritic plaques (NP) and neurofibrillary tangles (NFT) in the neocortex and hippocampus.

  31. Falls and fractures in patients with Alzheimer-type dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. JAMA 1987-03-01 Prevention and risk

    The prevention of fall-related injuries in patients with Alzheimer-type dementia (ATD) is hampered by an incomplete understanding of their causes.

  32. CAMDEX. A standardised instrument for the diagnosis of mental disorder in the elderly with special reference to the early detection of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science 1986-12-01 Getting a diagnosis

    A new interview schedule for the diagnosis and measurement of dementia in the elderly is described.

  33. The AIDS dementia complex: I. Clinical features

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1986-06-01 How common it is

    Of 70 autopsied patients with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), 46 suffered progressive dementia that was frequently accompanied by motor and behavioral dysfunction.

  34. Dementia: a systematic approach to identifying reversible causes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Geriatrics 1986-04-01 Digital health tools

    The development of FAST is of great importance to clinicians in identifying possibly remediable complications of Alzheimer's disease and distinguishing them from the characteristic progression of the illness.

  35. Dementia and depression among the elderly living in the Hobart community: the effect of the diagnostic criteria on the prevalence rates

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Psychological medicine 1985-11-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    A survey was made of 274 non-institutionalized persons aged 70 and over living in Hobart.

  36. Language disintegration in dementia: effects of etiology and severity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Brain and language 1985-05-01 Digital health tools

    The speech characteristics on a standardized picture description task of 26 subjects with presumed senile dementia of the Alzheimer type (SDAT) and 13 subjects with stroke-related dementia (SRD) were compared to 15 normal subjects over age 59 years.

  37. Senile dementia: public policy and adequate institutional care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. American Journal of Public Health 1984-12-01 Health systems and care delivery

    Increasing costs of institutional care for the aged have occasioned a variety of government cost containment measures.

  38. Gait and balance in senile dementia of Alzheimer's type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Age and ageing 1983-11-01 Clinical safety

    Measures of gait and balance were undertaken in 11 elderly ambulant patients suffering from senile dementia of Alzheimer type of moderate severity, and in an equal number of healthy non-demented age- and sex-matched controls.

  39. Senile dementia of the Alzheimer type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1983-11-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The prevalence of severe dementia in the United States is about 1.3 million cases, of which at least 50 to 60% are of the Alzheimer type.

  40. A comparison of clinical features in early- and late-onset primary degenerative dementia. One entity or two?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Archives of neurology 1983-03-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    The prevalence of a number of clinical features occurring in patients with early- (before age 65) and late-onset primary degenerative dementia of the Alzheimer type (PDDAT) are compared.

  41. The Global Deterioration Scale for assessment of primary degenerative dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. The American journal of psychiatry 1982-09-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Cognitive decline associated with old age and consistent with the diagnosis of primary degenerative dementia is a unique clinical syndrome with characteristic phenomena and progression.

  42. A New Clinical Scale for the Staging of Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. The British Journal of Psychiatry 1982-06-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Accurate clinical staging of dementia in older subjects has not previously been achieved despite the use of such methods as psychometric testing, behavioural rating, and various combinations of simpler psychometric and behavioural evaluations.

  43. Delirium and dementia: diagnostic criteria and fatality rates

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science 1982-02-01 Clinical safety

    Medically ill patients diagnosed at index admission as delirious, i.e., suffering cognitive decline and an altered state of consciousness, had higher fatality rates than demented, cognitively intact or depressed patients.

  44. EEG findings in senile dementia and normal aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Acta neurologica Scandinavica 1982-01-01 Clinical safety

    EEG findings in 62 patients with senile dementia of alzheimer type (SDA), 22 patients with multi-infarct dementia (MID) and 90 controls of same age and sex were studied.

  45. Senile dementia: combined pharmacologic and psychologic treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 1981-04-01 Prevention trials

    Either supportive counseling (SC) or cognitive training (CT) was used in an attempt to enhance the efficiency of a standard pharmacologic treatment for dementia, viz, dihydroergotoxine mesylate (DEM, Hydergine).

  46. The Association Between Quantitative Measures of Dementia and of Senile Change in the Cerebral Grey Matter of Elderly Subjects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. The British Journal of Psychiatry 1968-07-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    The ageing of many populations in recent years has directed increasing attention to the social, medical and biological problems of senescence.

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