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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. Quantifying diagnostic signal decay in dementia: a national study of Medicare hospitalization data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-11-01 Risk factors

    Non-specific codes were most common. Alzheimer's and vascular dementia codes showed high regional variability.

  2. Real‐world prediction of early‐onset dementia by health record data: A multi‐center machine learning study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-11-01 Digital health tools

    The CatBoost-based risk model achieved an area under the receiver-operating characteristic curve (AUROC) of 0.814 (<70 years) and 0.892 (<65 years).

  3. GUIDE and Beyond: Strategies for Comprehensive Dementia Care Integration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2025-10-31 Health systems and care delivery

    The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model represents a landmark opportunity to improve outcomes for persons with dementia and their caregivers and scale comprehensive dementia care through a structured service delivery and alternative payment approach.

  4. Psychometric properties of International HIV Dementia Scale as screening tool for neurocognitive disorder among people living with HIV/AIDS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Scientific Reports 2025-10-29 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Multivariable linear regression analysis indicated that being married (β = 0.6, p-value = 0.02) and being a young adult (β = 0.52, p-value = 0.04) were significantly associated with better neurocognitive performance.

  5. Identification of Hasegawa Dementia Scale‐Revised Cutoff Scores Associated With Mini‐Mental State Examination Thresholds for Anti‐Amyloid β Therapies in Patients With Amnesia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Psychogeriatrics 2025-10-26 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Of 234 patients, 143 (61.1%) were Aβ-positive.

  6. Dementia risk literacy in older Australians: beyond knowledge

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Public Health Research & Practice 2025-10-23 Prevention trials

    Participants numbered 3334 and had a median age of 62 years.

  7. Integrating Artificial Intelligence with Biomarkers to Meet the Challenges of Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 30 out of 100. Journal of dementia and Alzheimer's disease 2025-10-22 Digital health tools

    Dementia, the most common subtype of which is Alzheimer’s disease, represents a significant global and social health challenge.

  8. A community-based participatory approach to delivering the Dealing with Dementia program to Black caregivers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Frontiers in Public Health 2025-10-21 Disparities

    Following the pilot field test, a sustainability plan was co-developed with community facilitators to support continued implementation and ensure that resources spent on DWDAlter were not lost.

  9. A scoping review of interventions for Hispanic caregivers of persons living with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia Behavior & Socioeconomics of Aging 2025-10-21 Disparities

    Dementia disproportionately affects Hispanic/Latino caregivers, and while some interventions exist, their consideration of intersectional factors remains unclear.

  10. Using Artificial Intelligence–Based Technologies for the Early Detection of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia: Scoping Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. JMIR Aging 2025-10-21 Digital health tools

    After screening 3670 articles for eligibility, the review includes 12 studies.

  11. Culturally sensitive CLEAR guidelines on disclosing and communicating a diagnosis of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & Dementia 2025-10-14 Getting a diagnosis

    Providing a dementia diagnosis is challenging, especially in primary care and considering diverse patient backgrounds.

  12. Utilization of home- and community-based services among rural family caregivers of persons with dementia: the role of the area deprivation index

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Frontiers in Public Health 2025-10-14 Risk factors

    About 65% of caregivers used at least one support service, with 52% utilizing home-based services and 52% community-based services.

  13. Previous parity differentially influences cognition in later life depending on dementia status

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. npj Dementia 2025-10-10 Brain tissue and pathology

    Sex influences cognitive aging and dementia, yet research on the impact of female-specific factors, such as parity and fetal sex, on later-life cognition remains limited and equivocal.

  14. Large Language Models: A Paradigm Shift for Dementia Diagnosis and Care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. British Journal of Hospital Medicine 2025-10-09 Getting a diagnosis

    Dementia poses major challenges to healthcare worldwide.

  15. Urban–rural disparities in dementia-related mortality among older adults in the U.S. from 1999 to 2020

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 29 out of 100. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics Plus 2025-10-04 Disparities

    Dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), is a major cause of death among older adults in the United States.

  16. Global burden, quality of care, and cross-country inequalities in Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias from 1990 to 2021

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Global Health 2025-10-03 Disparities

    The global age-standardised DALY rates of ADRDs per 100 000 population slightly increased from 1331.59 (95% confidence interval (CI) = 881.57, 1781.61) in 1990 to 1347.24 (95% CI = 906.36, 1788.12) in 2021, with an AAPC of 0.04% (95% CI = 0.02, 0.05).

  17. AI-Based Severity Classification of Dementia Using Gait Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Sensors 2025-10-02 Digital health tools

    This study aims to explore the utility of artificial intelligence (AI) in classifying dementia severity based on gait analysis data and to examine how machine learning (ML) can address the limitations of conventional statistical approaches.

  18. Acceptability and feasibility of a sensor-instrumented ‘SmartSocks’ wearable prototype to detect agitation in people with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. International Psychogeriatrics 2025-10-01 Digital health tools

  19. Advancing early and equitable detection of dementia: key learnings/challenges, recent innovations, and future directions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. The Gerontologist 2025-10-01 Disparities

    Worldwide, over half of all individuals with dementia are undiagnosed.

  20. Effectiveness of the In-Hospital Information Technology System-Based Delirium Management Intervention Program in Medically Hospitalized Patients with Dementia: A Retrospective Case–Control Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare 2025-10-01 Clinical safety

    The intervention group showed a significantly lower delirium incidence (34% versus 18%, p =0.010) and earlier detection of delirium after hospitalization (3.2 versus 2.2 days, p =0.035).

  21. Making time for brain health: recognising temporal inequity in dementia risk reduction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. The Lancet Healthy Longevity 2025-10-01 Prevention and risk

    Time is an under-recognised social determinant of brain health, and is potentially as important as education or income for dementia risk.

  22. MMSE-Based Dementia Prediction: Deep vs. Traditional Models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Life 2025-10-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Early and accurate diagnosis of dementia is essential to improving patient outcomes and reducing societal burden.

  23. Prevention of cognitive impairment and dementia in people with Parkinson's disease: A call-to-action

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Parkinson s Disease 2025-10-01 Prevention trials

    Mild cognitive impairment and dementia are common symptoms in people with Parkinson's disease (PwPD) that impair the quality of life of those affected.

  24. Role of PCPs in diagnosing dementia in traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-10-01 Health systems and care delivery

    Among a matched sample of 15,410,030 beneficiaries, accounting for both provider and patient characteristics, the incident dementia diagnosis rate was 0.11 percentage points lower for MA beneficiaries compared to TM beneficiaries attributed to the same PCP.

  25. Role of Artificial Intelligence in the Diagnosis of Dementia in the Elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 29 out of 100. International Journal of Community Pharmacy 2025-09-30 Getting a diagnosis

    Dementia, a progressive neurodegenerative disorder affecting memory, cognition, and behaviour, poses a major global health challenge in aging populations.

  26. Dementia prevalence in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-09-29 Getting a diagnosis

    Cognitive status was determined for 5414 participants, with a dementia prevalence of 8.9% when assessed at a mean age of 81 years.

  27. General practitioners’ practices and training needs in dementia care: a comparison of urban and rural areas in Kazakhstan

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Aging & Mental Health 2025-09-29 Disparities

    Targeted interventions, as enhanced training and improved support systems, are essential to address these disparities and better support GPs.

  28. Broadening dementia risk models: building on the 2024 Lancet Commission report for a more inclusive global framework

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. EBioMedicine 2025-09-27 Prevention and risk

    The 2024 Lancet Commission Report on dementia prevention has identified 14 modifiable risk factors that account for approximately 45% of global dementia cases.

  29. Empowering community health workers in dementia care in South Texas

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-09-24 Disparities

    Alzheimer's disease and related dementias disproportionately affect minority racial and ethnic communities.

  30. Aesthetic Experience in the Acceptance of Wearable Technology for People With Dementia: Critical Interpretive Synthesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. JMIR Aging 2025-09-22 Digital health tools

    A total of 63 studies were included in this study.

  31. Antipsychotic prescriptions in people with dementia in primary care: a cohort study investigating adherence of dose and duration to UK clinical guidelines

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. The Lancet Psychiatry 2025-09-17 How common it is

    In our dataset search, we identified 108 910 people with a record indicating dementia at any time.

  32. Utilization of Occupational and Physical Therapy Home Health Visits Among People Living With Dementia With Varying Social Determinants of Health

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2025-09-15 Risk factors

    We sought to identify patterns in occupational therapy (OT) and physical therapy (PT) home health care visits among people living with dementia (PLWD) by (1) level of function care partner report compared with administrative data, (2) race and ethnicity, and (3) level of socioeconomic resources.

  33. Dementia Dialogue: An Educational Workshop for Medical Students

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2025-09-11 Clinical safety

    We created and hosted a dementia workshop for first and second year medical students in 2023 and 2024 aimed at increasing interest and passion for empathic dementia care.

  34. Social exposome and brain health outcomes of dementia across Latin America

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Nature Communications 2025-09-11 Disparities

    A multidimensional social exposome (MSE)-the combined lifespan measures of education, food insecurity, financial status, access to healthcare, childhood experiences, and more-may shape dementia risk and brain health over the lifespan, particularly in underserved regions like Latin America.

  35. Machine Learning Prediction of Agitation in Dementia Patients Using Sleep and Physiological Data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Applied Sciences 2025-09-10 Digital health tools

    Dementia is a progressive condition that affects cognitive and functional abilities.

  36. The National Dementia Workforce Study: The Plan for Organization Sample Frames and Data Collection

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2025-09-04 Long-term cohort studies

    The National Dementia Workforce Study was designed to improve our understanding of the individuals and systems who care for people with dementia, but designing and implementing such a study is challenging due to the large number of patient care organizations, clinical and direct care roles, and locations in which care is provided.

  37. A critical review and classification of dementia risk assessment tools to inform dementia risk reduction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-09-02 Prevention and risk

    Addressing modifiable dementia risk factors requires reliable risk assessment methods.

  38. [An Overview of Medical Fees and Patient Cost-Sharing in Dementia Care in Japan]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 26 out of 100. No shinkei geka. Neurological surgery 2025-09-01 Health systems and care delivery

    In Japan, dementia-related medical services are covered by the universal health insurance system, with patient co-payments based on age and income.

  39. Artificial intelligence approach to optimise safety for hospitalised patients with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. BMJ Open Quality 2025-09-01 Digital health tools

    We used 1387 safety event reports for model development, 989 (71.3%) reports related to situational factors and 119 (8.6%) reports related to active failures.

  40. Neuroimaging markers of dementia across race/ethnicity and sex/gender using an intersectional approach within the HABS‐HD cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-09-01 Disparities

    We analyzed data from 3433 dementia-free participants with either magnetic resonance imaging or positron emission tomography (PET) data at baseline (mean [standard deviation] age: 65 [9] years, 36% non-Hispanic White [NHW], 27% Black, 37% Hispanic, and 63% women).

  41. Objective physical activity in people with young onset dementia, late onset dementia, and without dementia: A UK Biobank study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-09-01 Long-term cohort studies

    BackgroundCurrent physical activity literature does not distinguish between young (dementia diagnosed before 65) and late onset dementia despite differences between these groups such as age, being known to influence physical activity levels.

  42. Prevalence and co-occurrence of dementia risk factors in Denmark: A nationwide study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-09-01 How common it is

    In the whole population (N = 1,214,286) and the subpopulation (N = 88,565), 5 % had no risk factors, 12 % had only one, and 82 % had multiple.

  43. The National Dementia Workforce Study: Overview

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2025-09-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Meeting the care needs of people with dementia is a major public health and societal challenge.

  44. The role of built and social environments in Alzheimer's disease dementia prevalence in the United States: A machine learning approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-09-01 Risk factors

    Significant regional differences in AD dementia prevalence were observed (F = 126.56, p < 0.05).

  45. With this study, we will contribute nationally representative data on health, dementia and cognitive aging in Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, as well as harmonized data in Cuba to expand understanding of aging and dementia in the Hispanic Caribbean and promote cross-national comparative research around the world.

  46. Acceptability of wearable technology for the early detection of dementia-causing diseases: perspectives from the CODEC II cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. BMC Digital Health 2025-08-28 Digital health tools

    = 1), and three caregivers. Five key themes were identified, including ease of use, wearability, usefulness, transparency, and behavioral intention.

  47. Emerging Trends in Early Dementia Diagnosis: An Analysis on Advanced Machine Learning Approaches

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. ACM Computing Surveys 2025-08-28 Digital health tools

    Dementia is the waning of cognitive abilities, which is typically seen with the natural aging process and includes issues with memory, language, and problem-solving abilities.

  48. Cognitive Decline and Dementia in Chronic Widespread Pain: A Longitudinal Population-based Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Anesthesiology 2025-08-25 Long-term cohort studies

    This study analyzed 13 yr of follow-up data from 188,594 participants to assess the relationship between CWP and cognitive outcomes, while exploring the mediating effects of brain structure and systemic inflammation.

  49. Artificial Intelligence and Personhood in Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders 2025-08-20 Digital health tools

    The unprecedented rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in recent times is unparalleled in history.AI 1 seemingly possesses cognitive abilities that hitherto only humans could boast of -reason, an inimitable, embodied, and finite existence. 47Nonetheless, the ubiquitous abilities of AI can help to enhance treatment and care for PLWDs in 48 enabling early diagnosis, continuous monitoring and personalized support.

  50. Intersectional research on dementia care for post-migrants and ethnic minority groups: a scoping review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Frontiers in Dementia 2025-08-18 Disparities

    Limited studies focusing on the intersectional determinants of preferences of ethnic minority groups or post-migrants with dementia were found.

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