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  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. Vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID) are common and may be the most preventable cause of clinically significant cognitive decline.

  2. Cross-cultural functional assessment for dementia: A commentary

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. The Clinical Neuropsychologist 2025-08-17 Disparities

    Dementia diagnosis relies on assessing functional decline, yet widely used assessment tools are often developed in Euro-American contexts, limiting their cross-cultural validity.

  3. Identifying the optimal combinations of modifiable dementia risk factors to target in multidomain intervention – Three-year longitudinal findings from the Canadian longitudinal study on aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-08-15 Prevention trials

    The combinations that were both highly prevalent and had the most detrimental effect on global cognition were: hearing loss and physical inactivity for the dyad (mean difference in change score = -0.07 SD; 95 % CI: -0.09 to -0.06; p < 0.001; effect size = -0.28), hearing loss, physical inactivity, and hypertension for the triad (mean difference in change score = -0.07; 95 % CI: -0.09 to -0.06; p < 0.001; effect size = -0.28), and hearing loss, physical inactivity, hypertension, and sleep disturbance for the tetrad (mean difference in change score = -0.05; 95 % CI: -0.07 to -0.03; p < 0.001; effect size = -0.20).

  4. Precision Nutrition for Dementia: Exploring the Potential in Mitigating Dementia Progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 29 out of 100. Journal of dementia and Alzheimer's disease 2025-08-14 Inflammation and the immune system

    Precision nutrition is a tailored dietary approach that considers an individual’s genetic and metabolic profile, lifestyle factors, and specific nutritional needs to improve health and potentially modify disease progression.

  5. Sex Differences in Mortality and Health Care Utilization After Dementia Diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. JAMA Neurology 2025-08-11 Caregiving

    A total of 5 721 711 patients (3 302 579 female and 2 419 132 male) with incident dementia between 2014 and 2021 were included in the study.

  6. Cognitive feature evaluation for disease progression in dementia and its precursors using feature selection

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Health and Technology 2025-08-08 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The results of this study identified important relationships between cognitive features in the ADAS-Cog and provide a clear example of the value of data-driven machine learning approaches in the identification of markers that indicate disease progression in dementia.

  7. The potential for dementia prevention in Brazil: a population attributable fraction calculation for 14 modifiable risk factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. The Lancet Regional Health - Americas 2025-08-07 Prevention and risk

    The overall PAF for the 14 modifiable risk factors was 59.5% (95% CI = 58.5-60.5).

  8. 299. SENSORS IN-HOME FOR ELDER WELLBEING (SINEW): DIGITAL PHENOTYPING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR EARLY DETECTION OF DEMENTIA

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology 2025-08-01 Digital health tools

    Early identification of individuals at increased risk of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a pre-dementia state, can provide a critical window for prompt intervention to prevent or reverse disease progression.

  9. Machine learning diagnosis of cognitive impairment and dementia in harmonized older adult cohorts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-08-01 Digital health tools

    Measures of cognition were especially important predictive features of clinical diagnosis.

  10. Mental and physical health of US rural/urban caregivers of persons with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. PLoS ONE 2025-08-01 Disparities

    Approximately, 25.7% of rural and 20.8% of urban caregivers reported ≥14 PMHD while 25% of rural and 10% of urban caregivers reported ≥14 PPHD.

  11. Multimorbidity in dementia: Current perspectives and future challenges

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-08-01 Prevention and risk

    Multimorbidity-the co-occurrence of two or more chronic health conditions-affects > 86% of people with dementia.

  12. The risk of delirium or dementia‐related hospitalization among individuals living with dementia after long‐term care entry: A population‐based risk prediction model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-08-01 Clinical safety

    Within 365 days, 5.2% (N = 10709) of individuals had a delirium or dementia-related hospitalization.

  13. Validity and reliability of the Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly (IQCODE) for dementia assessment in rural South Africa

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-08-01 Disparities

    Index participants averaged 71.9 years, with > 50% lacking formal education.

  14. Decision making in frontotemporal dementia: neuropsychological and neuroimaging assessments

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Frontiers in Neuroscience 2025-07-31 Lewy body dementia

    Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a neurodegenerative disorder primarily affecting the frontal and temporal lobes, leading to significant impairments in executive function, social behavior, and emotional regulation.

  15. Inequalities in the Duration and Lifetime Risk of Dementia in the United States

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Demography 2025-07-31 Disparities

    Dementia prevalence exceeds 40% for individuals in advanced old age, but that figure is not informative about the lifetime risk of ever having dementia or the risk of having dementia for different durations.

  16. Application of machine learning in EEG-based dementia diagnosis: Classification and differential diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-07-28 Digital health tools

    BackgroundElectroencephalogram (EEG) is a promising, non-invasive method for identifying the presence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) by recognizing specific brain activity patterns associated with the disease.

  17. Can Frontal Assessment Battery Discriminate between Patients with Alzheimer’s and Frontotemporal Dementia?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 2025-07-26 Getting a diagnosis

    FAB-Ch scores were significantly lower in individuals with dementia compared to controls (p < .001).

  18. Clinical prediction models using artificial intelligence approaches in dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research 2025-07-25 Digital health tools

    Among 2699 articles initially screened, 21 studies were included, encompassing over 1 million participants.

  19. Consensus statement on exploring the Nexus between nutrition, brain health and dementia prevention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Nutrition & Metabolism 2025-07-25 Prevention and risk

    An international expert panel convened to evaluate nutrition-based approaches to brain health and dementia prevention.

  20. Evaluation of Reminiscence Therapy on Language Outcomes Among People With Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 26 out of 100. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups 2025-07-25 Getting a diagnosis

    There was a significant correlation in MoCA and FLCI-2 measures but no significant correlation between the language measures (CIUs, FLCI-2, or word count).

  21. Long-term air pollution exposure and incident dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Lancet Planetary Health 2025-07-24 Prevention and risk

    We found no significant association for exposure to nitrogen oxides (five studies, n=241 409, pooled adjusted HR per 10 μg/m 3 increase, 1·05 [0·97-1·13]; I 2 =44%), PM 10 (four studies, n=246 440, pooled adjusted HR per 15 μg/m 3 increase, 1·52 [0·80-2·87]; I 2 =82%), or annual ozone (four studies, n=419 972, pooled adjusted HR per 45 μg/m 3 increase, 0·82 [0·35-1·92]; I 2 =69%), with moderate to considerable heterogeneity between studies in these pooled analyses.

  22. Multidomain interventions for dementia: Reconsidering clinical relevance, transferability and trial limitations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 28 out of 100. Geriatrics and gerontology international/Geriatrics & gerontology international 2025-07-24 Prevention trials

  23. Decomposing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Risk and Protective Factors of Dementia in the U.S

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Clinical Gerontologist 2025-07-17 Getting a diagnosis

    Black participants had 2.883 times higher odds of developing dementia compared to Whites, while Hispanic participants had 1.230 times higher odds (not statistically significant).

  24. Developing an explainable machine learning and fog computing-based visual rating scale for the prediction of dementia progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Scientific Reports 2025-07-16 Digital health tools

    Recently, dementia research has primarily concentrated on using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to develop learning models in processing and analyzing brain data.

  25. Multimodal Detection of Agitation in People With Dementia in Clinical Settings: Observational Pilot Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. JMIR Aging 2025-07-15 Digital health tools

    The Extra Trees model achieved up to 99% accuracy for personalized wristband data, while the multilayer perceptron model performed best in general models with 98% accuracy.

  26. A combined naturalistic driving, clinical, and neurobehavioral data set for investigating aging and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Scientific data 2025-07-13 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease and related dementia (ADRD) are becoming increasingly prevalent and are predicted to affect up to 153 million globally by 2050.

  27. A machine learning framework for early-stage dementia-friendly architectural design evaluation using visual access metrics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 29 out of 100. Architectural Intelligence 2025-07-10 Digital health tools

    The results suggest a viable pathway for developing ML support tools to provide feedback on DDP compliance at an early design stage.

  28. Enhancing automated detection and classification of dementia in individuals with cognitive impairment using artificial intelligence techniques

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Scientific Reports 2025-07-09 Getting a diagnosis

    Dementia is a degenerative and chronic disorder, increasingly prevalent among older adults, posing significant challenges in providing appropriate care.

  29. Associations between U.S. county‐level social infrastructure and dementia among Medicare beneficiaries, 2020

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia Behavior & Socioeconomics of Aging 2025-07-07 Risk factors

    Higher densities of civic organizations were associated with lower county dementia incidence, while museums and recreational facilities were associated with lower prevalence and incidence.

  30. Cost of Psychiatric Inpatient Treatment for Dementia in Switzerland: A Case-Level Analysis of Billing Data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2025-07-05 Health systems and care delivery

    The objective of this study was to investigate the cost of care for patients with a primary diagnosis of dementia in Swiss hospitals under the new TARPSY reimbursement system.

  31. Assessing family history and approaches for identifying patients with dementia with diagnostically significant genetic findings

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Genetics in Medicine 2025-07-03 Treatments

    A positive family history was reported in 42% of patients in the Alzheimer disease cohort, 48% of patients in the frontotemporal dementia cohort, and 34% in those with other dementia types.

  32. Decline in incidence and prevalence of dementia: An analysis of outpatient claims data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Deutsches Ärzteblatt international 2025-07-03 How common it is

    The incidence of dementia declined by 26% percent (95% confidence interval: -26.2; -25.3), from 2020 per 100 000 insured individuals in 2015 to 1500 per 100 000 in 2022.

  33. Reliability and validity analysis of the Chinese version of the Quick Dementia Rating System (QDRS)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. BMC Geriatrics 2025-07-02 Getting a diagnosis

    /df = 2.81, P < 0.001). There were strong correlations between the C-QDRS and standardized neuropsychological tests, indicating that the C-QDRS exhibited concurrent validity (all P < 0.001).

  34. Systemic disadvantages facing UK ethnic elders within dementia healthcare

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. BJPsych Advances 2025-07-02 Disparities

    Reduced access to dementia healthcare services by elders from ethnic minority backgrounds is often a manifestation of underlying systemic disadvantages within dementia assessment and treatment services.

  35. A vision transformer approach for fully automated and scalable dementia screening using clock drawing test images

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring 2025-07-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The ViT approach predicted dementia with 76.5% balanced accuracy, outperforming human-scored features (74.3%) and existing deep learning models (MiniVGG = 73.3%, MobileNetV2 = 72.3%, relevance factor variational autoencoder = 69.1%) on the TDRA dataset.

  36. Alzheimer's disease and dementia in Japan: Epidemiological trends, regional disparities, and future projections

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-07-01 Disparities

    ADOD cases have steadily increased, with projections indicating continued growth by 2030.

  37. Bridging gaps in dementia care across southeastern Europe: Regional challenges, cross-border innovation, and implementation barriers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Public Health Research 2025-07-01 Disparities

    Dementia is a growing challenge in Southeastern and Western Europe, with aging trends projected to accelerate in the former region.

  38. Community-based dementia screening initiative in Brunei: pilot study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of Gerontology and Geriatrics 2025-07-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Community-based dementia screening using a questionnaire on risk factors, cognitive symptoms and the Mini-COG was feasible and acceptable in Brunei.

  39. Estimating the impact of risk factor reduction on dementia prevalence in New Zealand

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-07-01 How common it is

    The PIF for the total NZ population following a 15% risk factor reduction was 14.6% (95% confidence interval: 7.7-21.1) Modeled projections demonstrated prevalence reduction over time, from 1.0% at 10 years to 4.2% at 30 years.

  40. Global Burden of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias in adults aged 65 years and older, 1991–2021: population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Frontiers in Public Health 2025-07-01 Disparities

    The global mortality of ADRD among adults aged ≥65 years increased by 115%, from 6.5 (95% UI 1.5-18) per 100,000 population in 1991 to 14 (95% UI 3.5-37) per 100,000 population in 2021, with an Average Annual Percentage Change (AAPC) of 1.10% (95%CI 0.45%-1.76%).

  41. Intersecting Narratives in the Lives of Black Women Aging with Dementia

    ⚠ Report — not peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. The Hastings Center Report 2025-07-01 Disparities

    Despite elevated risk profiles for dementia, Black women are often absent in cultural narratives about dementia.

  42. Loneliness, social isolation, and effects on cognitive decline in patients with dementia: A retrospective cohort study using natural language processing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring 2025-07-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Lower cognitive levels in lonely and socially isolated patients suggest that these factors may contribute to dementia progression.

  43. Medication Causes and Treatment of Delirium in Patients With and Without Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Brain and Behavior 2025-07-01 Clinical safety

    Out of 3867 papers identified, 106 were included.

  44. Prevalence and progress of underdiagnosis of probable dementia: a repeated cross-sectional study in 19 European countries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. BMC Medicine 2025-07-01 Disparities

    A significant reduction in underdiagnosis of dementia was observed between the two periods, consistent across most countries.

  45. Social determinants of dementia: A scoping review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-07-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Dementia risk is influenced by the social conditions in which people live.

  46. The Effectiveness of the Comprehensive Dementia Prevention App 'MELI'

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Asia-pacific Journal of Convergent Research Interchange 2025-06-27 Prevention trials

    This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the comprehensive dementia prevention application 'MELI' in enhancing cognitive function and alleviating depressive symptoms among older adults.A total of 50 participants aged 60 and older, enrolled in a dementia prevention program operated in Namdong-gu, Incheon, South Korea, were randomly assigned to either an experimental or a control group, with 25 participants in each.

  47. Endoscopic characterization of oropharyngeal dysphagia in patients with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Frontiers in Aging 2025-06-26 Clinical safety

    A comparative analysis of dysphagia pathologies across the three dementia types revealed a relatively mixed picture of various dysphagia findings in all dementia types.

  48. Mechanisms of interventions targeting modifiable factors for dementia risk reduction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Molecular Neurodegeneration 2025-06-23 Prevention and risk

    The global prevalence of dementia is increasing.

  49. Decoding the Clinical Features that Associate with Progression, Causes, and Outcomes in Patients with Suspected Rapidly Progressive Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Annals of Neurology 2025-06-20 Getting a diagnosis

    Selected clinical features may identify patients with suspected RPD who are likely to continue to decline.

  50. In 2021, dementia accounted for 56.9 million global cases, 2.0 million deaths, and 36.3 million DALYs.

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