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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. Consensus-Harmonized Neuropsychological Assessment for Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2025-12-09 Vascular contributions

    A total of 44 experts participated in 3 survey rounds, with 28 to 31 participants each.

  2. Qualitative Evaluation of an Online Technology to Support Rural Caregivers of People with Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Geriatrics 2025-12-05 Disparities

    Key barriers included limited digital literacy, resistance to technology and privacy concerns, as well as competing organisational priorities, and inadequate technological infrastructure.

  3. A Smart RFID-Driven System for Dementia Patient Tracking: A Machine Learning Approach for Monitoring and Localization

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 29 out of 100. International Journal of Technology 2025-12-01 Digital health tools

    The global increase in the elderly population, which is expected to reach 2.1 billion by 2050, has highlighted the need for reliable monitoring systems to assist elderly individuals, especially those with dementia.

  4. Acceptable standards for clinic‐based digital cognitive assessments: Recommendations from the Global CEO Initiative on Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The rising prevalence of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia, combined with persistent underdiagnosis, is driving an increased need for scalable cognitive assessment tools.

  5. Brain Health PRO: Evaluating a Web‐Based Multidomain Intervention to Improve Dementia Literacy and Self‐Efficacy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Prevention trials

    A covariate-adjusted linear mixed model for the intention-to-treat sample (N = 353; mean age = 69.7) revealed a significant positive change in dementia literacy at 6 months (standardized change = 0.246; p = 0.012) and a significant improvement in self-efficacy at 12 months (standardized change = 0.157; p = 0.008).

  6. “But My Speech Is Fine...”: Expanding the Speech-Language Pathologist’s Role in Nursing Home Dementia Care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 26 out of 100. Innovation in Aging 2025-12-01 Risk factors

    Preliminary findings suggest these adaptations improved nursing assistant engagement, consistency in strategy use, and resident interaction quality.

  7. Classifying Dementia Diagnoses in the Baltimore Experience Corps Trial Using Medicare and Maryland’s Health Data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Innovation in Aging 2025-12-01 Health systems and care delivery

    Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrative data are among the most practical sources for understanding the incidence of dementia over time in older populations, but have yet to be widely used in intervention studies.

  8. Cognitive Assessment of Dementia Patients Using Large Language Models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The study included 685 patients who underwent MDS-cognitive and 3,630 patients assessed using OASIS.

  9. Community-Based Participatory Research on Art Engagement for People with Dementia in Japan

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. Innovation in Aging 2025-12-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    These findings suggest that participatory art, when integrated into community activities, can be a valuable resource for people with dementia and MCI, fostering social participation and self-expression.

  10. Community-level Alzheimer’s Disease or Related Dementia’s 65+ Prevalence in Five New England States

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. Innovation in Aging 2025-12-01 Risk factors

    An estimated two thirds of people living with Alzheimer’s disease or related dementias (ADRD) live and are cared for at home.

  11. Community Rates of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias and Supportive Services in CT, MA, & RI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Innovation in Aging 2025-12-01 Risk factors

    The consequences of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) are well documented, but beyond the individual, family, and health system costs are implications for communities that are not well-studied.

  12. Although individuals with dementia who reside in nursing homes are particularly susceptible to developing delirium, this condition is rarely recognised in these settings.

  13. Correlation of the Severity of Dementia with EEG Findings

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Acta Medica International 2025-12-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The mean age of the cohort was 77.4 ± 6.8 years, with 62% males and nearly equal urban–rural distribution.

  14. (DIADEM) Digital Assessment of Auditory Perception in Dementia : Study Protocol

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Getting a diagnosis

    We will assess the utility of auditory perceptual tests, both alone and combined with blood-based biomarkers (pTau217 and NfL), for diagnosis and prognosis in individuals with cognitive symptoms.

  15. Digital Health Literacy and Self-Efficacy in Using Digital Health Resources Among Caregivers of Individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Sage Open Aging 2025-12-01 Digital health tools

    This study explored digital health literacy skills, self-efficacy in utilizing digital health resources, and self-efficacy in managing personal health among caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD).

  16. Effect of the 2020 CMS telehealth expansion on diagnostic prevalence of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Risk factors

    Average county‐level ADRD prevalence was 11.06% across the pre‐expansion period and 7.15% post‐expansion.

  17. Home Health Access among Persons with Dementia: Traditional Medicare vs. Medicare Advantage

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Innovation in Aging 2025-12-01 Health systems and care delivery

    Persons with dementia were significantly more likely to enter HHC directly from the community (60% vs. 37%, adjusted OR = 1.52, 95% CI = 1.50-1.53).

  18. Improving Access to Dementia Care through AI‐Powered Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    In a cohort of 75 patients who completed Moneta's program (average age 73 ± 10, average MoCA score 20 ± 5), 59% had MCI and 33% had dementia.

  19. Inequities in dementia diagnosis and care: insights from a universal health care system

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Risk factors

    Of the 193,834 community-dwelling people with a new diagnosis of dementia, around 20% belonged to each material deprivation category.

  20. Introduction of an open‐access national‐level U.S. dementia surveillance system

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Health systems and care delivery

    The Dementia Datahub (https://dementiadatahub.org/) currently provides mapping, data reporting dashboards, system documentation, and public use files (available upon request) of statistics from the year 2020.

  21. Monitoring night‐time safety in households with dementia using ambient sensing technologies: a rule‐based decision algorithm

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Clinical safety

    Validation was conducted across 94 households over 365 nights, totalling 297,297 monitoring hours.

  22. Mortality and Institutionalization After a Potentially Preventable Hospitalization Among People with Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Innovation in Aging 2025-12-01 Risk factors

    Among dementia patients, a PPH increased the risk of mortality by 4.7 percentage points (PP) (95% CI: 3.8%-5.6%).

  23. Out of Pocket Costs for People with Dementia: A Comparison Across Insurance Types

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Innovation in Aging 2025-12-01 Health systems and care delivery

    Among PWD with Medicaid, out-of-pocket costs for nursing homes and assisted living facilities were significantly higher (60%) compared to those TM (33%) and MA (30%).

  24. Performance of Claims-based Dementia Algorithms in Medicare Fee-for-service and Medicare Advantage Populations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Innovation in Aging 2025-12-01 Health systems and care delivery

    Claims-based dementia algorithms have not been evaluated in the Medicare Advantage (MA) population, a critical gap given the rapid growth of MA and concerns about data completeness.

  25. Rural and Urban Differences in Dementia Diagnosis in the Western U.S

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 30 out of 100. Innovation in Aging 2025-12-01 Risk factors

    Of 6,911,104 patients (min=Idaho: 45,160; max=California: 2.46 million), we observed a substantial difference in overall diagnosed prevalence across states of residence: Oregon and Montana had the highest diagnosed prevalence (6.6% and 6.5%, respectively); New Mexico had the lowest (2.3%).

  26. Rural‐urban disparities in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia: The role of state‐level nurse practitioner policies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 30 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Risk factors

    ADRD mortality rates were slightly higher in rural areas compared to urban areas, with no significant differences between rural-adjacent and rural-nonadjacent counties in recent years.

  27. Social determinants of pharmacological dementia management: results from IDEAS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Risk factors

    We used multilevel logistic regression with a random site intercept to test whether the probability of change in management associated with social determinants, race/ADI interactions with amyloid‐positivity, comorbidities, and clinical setting, adjusting for demographics.

  28. Social determinants of pharmacological dementia management: results from IDEAS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Risk factors

    We used multilevel logistic regression with a random site intercept to test whether the probability of change in management associated with social determinants, race/ADI interactions with amyloid‐positivity, comorbidities, and clinical setting, adjusting for demographics.

  29. The effect of socioeconomic status on the severity of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia and ADRD caregiver outcomes: a preliminary exploration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Health systems and care delivery

    The ANCOVA demonstrated no significant overall differences in BPSD severity related to SES measures.

  30. The effects of psychosocial interventions on reducing hospitalisation in people with dementia: an umbrella review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Clinical safety

    1,318 unique titles and abstracts were screened, of which 20 articles met inclusion criteria.

  31. The National Dementia Care Collaborative: Outcomes From Year 1

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 29 out of 100. Innovation in Aging 2025-12-01 Health systems and care delivery

    The National Dementia Care Collaborative (NDCC) aims to improve access to and successful implementation of evidence-based comprehensive dementia care.

  32. Unraveling disparities in county‐level dementia diagnosis prevalence across the United States

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Risk factors

    Top-tertile counties averaged 1986 dementia cases per 100,000 residents; 43.8% were in the South.

  33. Who misses MCI diagnosis before dementia?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Risk factors

    Among 32,430 individuals (mean age at first hospital encounter 76.6±10.9 years; 59.1% female; 4.2% African American; 5.0% Hispanic), only 16.0% received an MCI diagnosis before their dementia diagnosis.

  34. Delirium superimposed on dementia (DSD)—a practical approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Age and Ageing 2025-11-28 Genetics

    DSD is linked to adverse outcomes, compared to dementia alone, like longer hospitalisation [3], mortality [3, 4], functional decline [3] and need for residential care [3].

  35. Quantum AI for psychiatric diagnosis: enhancing dementia classification with quantum machine learning

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in Psychiatry 2025-11-26 Digital health tools

    Early detection of dementia is a key requirement for effective patient management.

  36. Multi-model deep learning for dementia detection: addressing data and model limitations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Frontiers in Neuroscience 2025-11-25 Getting a diagnosis

    Among all evaluated models, the 3D-CNN and multimodal attention models achieved the highest performance, with accuracies of 84% and 86%, specificities of 83% and 86%, and sensitivities of 84% and 86%, respectively.

  37. Digital Dementia: Smart Technologies, mHealth Applications and IoT Devices, for Dementia-Friendly Environments

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks 2025-11-24 Getting a diagnosis

    The global increase in dementia cases, which is predicted to exceed 152 million by 2050, poses substantial challenges to healthcare systems and caregiving structures.

  38. Cognitive Functioning of Older Women with Diverse Physical Fitness and Independence – Limitations of Dementia Screening in Primary Healthcare

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 29 out of 100. Medical Studies 2025-11-19 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Wprowadzenie Obniżenie poziomu funkcjonowania poznawczego to częsty problem osób w wieku podeszłym, zwłaszcza kobiet, a jednym z czynników ryzyka jest brak aktywności fizycznej.

  39. Explainable Machine Learning-Based Classification of Clinical Dementia Ratings Using a Tablet-Based Cognitive Assessment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems 2025-11-17 Getting a diagnosis

    Dementia is a substantial public health issue with increasing prevalence globally.

  40. Measuring Mindfulness: Differences in the 15-Item Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire in Black and White Dementia Caregivers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 30 out of 100. Clinical Gerontologist 2025-11-17 Disparities

    The FFMQ-15 may reflect different experiences of mindfulness among Black caregivers of PWD.

  41. Dementia in older adults with schizophrenia: a 12-year analysis of prevalence, incidence, and treatment patterns in South Korea

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Schizophrenia 2025-11-13 How common it is

    Older adults with schizophrenia face a significantly elevated risk of dementia.

  42. Healthy Brain Healthy Life: an innovative and culturally tailored approach to dementia prevention in minority ethnic communities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 29 out of 100. Research for All 2025-11-13 Disparities

    Despite having an increased risk of developing dementia, individuals from minority ethnic communities are largely overlooked by research and dementia services and are less likely to receive timely diagnosis and appropriate support.

  43. Seek, and you will find? Word finding in multilingual dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. International Journal of Bilingualism 2025-11-08 Getting a diagnosis

    With one exception, the participants scored highest in their self-identified strongest language.

  44. Prevalence of living alone with dementia and other progressive neurological conditions: findings from primary care data in England

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. BMC Medicine 2025-11-04 Disparities

    In 2023, there were 205,507 people with dementia in the CPRD database, 40,244 with Parkinson's disease, 3515 with MND and 1672 with Huntington's disease.

  45. Digital Detection of Dementia in Primary Care: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2025-11-03 Getting a diagnosis

    Compared with the usual care clinics (12-month incidence, 213 of 1724 [12.4%]), the odds of an incident ADRD diagnosis were higher in the clinics randomized to QDRS plus PDM (12-month incidence, 355 of 2301 [15.4%]; adjusted odds ratio [AOR], 1.31; 95% CI, 1.05-1.64) but not the clinics randomized to PDM only (12-month incidence, 134 of 1300 [10.3%]; AOR, 0.84; 95% CI, 0.63-1.11]).

  46. Voiceprints of cognitive impairment: analyzing digital voice for early detection of Alzheimer’s and related dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. npj Dementia 2025-11-03 Digital health tools

    Early detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is critical yet challenging, particularly in younger individuals.

  47. Development of a Rural and Remote Dementia Training Framework

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Australian Journal of Rural Health 2025-11-01 Disparities

    Synthesis of the results identified three overarching key principles and seven actionable practices for consideration when designing or delivering dementia education to the rural and remote health and aged care workforce.

  48. Identifying dementia risk profiles for targeted interventions: A latent class analysis of at‐risk middle‐aged Australians

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-11-01 Prevention trials

    Among 403 participants (mean age 56.4 ± 5.7 years, 62.5% female), the median number of dementia risk factors was 5.0; hyperlipidaemia (92.5%), low cognitive activity (72.5%), obesity (57.6%), and hypertension (52.7%) were the most prevalent.

  49. Incidence and Prevalence of Frontotemporal Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. JAMA Neurology 2025-11-01 How common it is

    In this systematic review and meta-analysis, estimates indicate that FTD is comparable in frequency to dementia with Lewy bodies and occurs at higher rates than progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal syndrome, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

  50. Pathomechanisms, genetic insights, and therapeutics in diabetes-associated dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Endocrinology 2025-11-01 Risk factors

    Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) significantly increases the risk of dementia due to overlapping metabolic, molecular, and genetic factors.

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