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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. Prevalence, aetiology, and service mapping of dementia in rural Uganda. Part of DEPEND Uganda (Dementia Epidemiology, unmet Need and co-Developing Solutions in Uganda)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Wellcome Open Research 2025-01-24 Getting a diagnosis

    This is the first study in Africa using blood-based and retinal imaging biomarkers to examine pathological processes underlying dementia, and systematically map services available for people with dementia.

  2. Determinants of dementia diagnosis in U.S. primary care in the past decade: A scoping review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-01-23 Caregiving

    Of 563 articles retrieved, 12 met eligibility criteria.

  3. Lifestyle interventions for dementia risk reduction: A review on the role of physical activity and diet in Western and Asian Countries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-01-23 Prevention and risk

    Dementia, is a critical global public health challenge with no effective pharmacological treatments.

  4. Social distance showed no significant differences in the normal aging and mild stage of dementia across all vignettes.

  5. Closing the gap in dementia research by community-based cohort studies in the Chinese population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific 2025-01-21 Getting a diagnosis

    China accounts for 1/5 of the global population and China faces a particularly heavy dementia burden due to its rapidly ageing population.

  6. An interpretable machine learning tool for in-home monitoring of agitation episodes in people living with dementia: a proof-of-concept study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. EClinicalMedicine 2025-01-20 Digital health tools

    Light Gradient-boosting Machine (LightGBM) achieved the highest performance in identifying agitation over an 8-day period with a sensitivity of 71.32% ± 7.38 and specificity of 75.28% ± 7.38.

  7. Communicative intentions and liminal signs in interaction with people living with late-stage dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Journal of Pragmatics 2025-01-20 Brain tissue and pathology

    This study examines the challenges caregivers face in interpreting the bodily behaviors of individuals with late-stage dementia as interactional signals.

  8. Searching for responders to multidomain dementia prevention in late life: A pooled analysis of individual participant data from the MAPT and preDIVA trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-01-17 Genetics

    Four hundred eighty-six participants developed dementia during 37,782 person-years of follow-up.

  9. Through Their Eyes: Defining ‘good life’ in dementia for health economics and outcomes research

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Social Science & Medicine 2025-01-16 Disparities

    Despite progress in involving people living with dementia in health research, disparities remain, particularly in the field of health economics and outcomes research, where excessive reliance on proxy reports from care partners or healthcare professionals persists even when people are capable of self-reporting, leading to inequitable inclusion.

  10. The Validity and Reliability of the Turkish Version of the Rowland Universal Dementia Assessment Scale (RUDAS) for Alzheimer’s Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Journal of Drug Delivery and Therapeutics 2025-01-15 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The Cronbach alpha coefficient of the RUDAS scale is 0.8529.

  11. An evaluation of a community dementia screening program in rural Kenya: DEM‐SKY

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-01-14 Disparities

    The program demonstrated good acceptability, adoption, and fidelity and was effective in instigating behavior change.

  12. Preventing dementia in Italy: Estimations of modifiable risk factors and public health implications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-01-13 Disparities

    The national combined PAF for 11 modifiable risk factors was 39.6 % (95 % CI: 20.8-55.9).

  13. Depression and dementia: interrogating the causality of the relationship

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 2025-01-11 Risk factors

    Depression was a strong risk factor for incident dementia with an OR of 1.76 (95% CI 1.63 to 1.90), a relationship which was found to be specific to depression rather than commonly proposed confounders.

  14. Cognitive Activity From Early to Late Life and the Risk of AD Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Neurology Open Access 2025-01-10 Brain tissue and pathology

    Participation in late-life cognitive activities has been associated with a slower rate of cognitive decline and reduced risk of dementia; however, whether this association is independent of earlier experiences is unclear.

  15. Development and evaluation of a free e-learning program on dementia risk reduction for the general public: A pre-post study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-01-10 Prevention and risk

    Of the 477 participants (70.9% women, mean age = 63 years), 339 (71.1%) completed the survey immediately after the e-learning, and 241 (50.5%) completed the three-month follow-up survey.

  16. Do Older Mexican Americans With Dementia Benefit From Living Closer to the Border? Evidence From the HEPESE

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 2025-01-10 Disparities

    Hispanic older adults face significant barriers to healthcare access, stemming from multiple factors: limited income, high medical costs, elevated rates of chronic disease and dementia, and greater reliance on public insurance programs, relative to other racial, ethnic, and age groups.

  17. Longitudinal study of care needs and behavioural changes in people living with dementia using in-home assessment data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Communications Medicine 2025-01-10 Getting a diagnosis

    Here we show, psychiatric behavioural symptoms and difficulties in activities of daily living, fluctuate alongside cognitive decline. 677 activities of daily living and 632 psychiatric behaviour questionnaires are available at intervals of 3 months.

  18. Identifying Challenges Related to the Management of Comorbidities in People with Dementia in Residential Care: Expert Delphi Consensus Exercise

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Applied Gerontology 2025-01-06 Clinical safety

    Improving early detection, management, and treatment of comorbid conditions to dementia in residential care could slow down cognitive and functional decline, and increase residents' quality of life.

  19. A Nurse‐Initiated Protocol for Interprofessional Management of Changed Behaviours in Hospital Patients With Dementia and/or Delirium: A Modified e‐Delphi Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of Advanced Nursing 2025-01-02 Clinical safety

    Fifty-three experts participated (eight completed all rounds).

  20. Prevalence of Dementia Among US Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2025-01-02 How common it is

    This cohort study evaluates the prevalence of dementia diagnoses among US adults with autism spectrum disorder.

  21. A longitudinal study of frailty reversibility through a multi-component dementia prevention program

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Journal of Physical Therapy Science 2025-01-01 Prevention trials

    [Purpose] We evaluated the effects of a multicomponent intervention for pre-frail and frail older adults and assessed changes in cognitive function and body composition to explore frailty reversibility. [Participants and Methods] A total of 51 community-dwelling older adults aged 70 years or older were classified into the Robust (n=28) and Prefrail/Frail groups (n=23) using the Kihon Checklist.

  22. After Risk-Adjustment Change, Dementia Diagnoses Increased In Medicare Advantage Relative To Traditional Medicare

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Health Affairs 2025-01-01 Health systems and care delivery

    In 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reintroduced Alzheimer's disease and related dementias to its risk-adjustment payment model for Medicare Advantage (MA) plans.

  23. Alzheimer's disease and related dementias among Medicare beneficiaries aged ≥ 65 years in rural America, by Census region and select demographic characteristics: 2020

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Journal of Rural Health 2025-01-01 Health systems and care delivery

    The study population consisted of 54 million Medicare data Fee-for-Service (FFS) and Medicare Advantage enrollees aged ≥ 65; 5.3 million beneficiaries were diagnosed with ADRD, and 16.2% (n = 861,337) of beneficiaries diagnosed with ADRD resided in rural America.

  24. Association Between Dementia and Optical Coherence Tomography Scan Quality

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Aging and Disease 2025-01-01 Getting a diagnosis

    It is generally assumed that dementia affects the quality of optical coherence tomography (OCT) scans.

  25. Birth Rate as a Determinant of Dementia Incidence: A Comprehensive Global Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. American Journal of Alzheimer s Disease & Other Dementias® 2025-01-01 How common it is

    Lower birth rate is an independent risk factor for dementia, particularly in developed countries.

  26. Clinical practice guidelines on addressing cognitive impairment in vascular dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Indian Journal of Psychiatry 2025-01-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Also, there are no licensed treatments specifically for VD.[3] What sets VD apart from other dementias are the following factors: The etiology of VD is clearly associated with brain tissue loss and dysfunction secondary to vascular pathophysiology in which hypertension seems to be the main reason.[4] While the exact cellular mechanisms are still not clear, it does imply that VD may potentially be largely preventable through better cardiovascular-metabolic risk modification.

  27. Clinical practice guidelines on addressing cognitive impairment in treatable dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Indian Journal of Psychiatry 2025-01-01 Getting a diagnosis

    This is because of the ambiguity surrounding the terminology used to characterize reversible dementia—the variation in the population being studied, or the existence of subclinical instances that are difficult to diagnose.[3] By and large however, the proportion of reversible dementias compared to the irreversible dementias is very low.

  28. Cognitive trajectories and dementia risk in patients with schizophrenia spectrum versus affective disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Psychological Medicine 2025-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    = 1,217; 65.0 years) showed earlier initial MMSE scores (by 6.1 years, 95% CI = 5.2-7.0), earlier dementia diagnoses (by 2.3 years, 95% CI = 0.9-3.7) but lower dementia risk (adjusted HR = 0.81; 95% CI = 0.69-0.95).

  29. Face Mesh for Dementia Detection: Evaluating Data Augmentation in Deep Learning and Traditional Machine Learning

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. IEEE Access 2025-01-01 Digital health tools

    Alzheimer’s disease (AD) stands as a prevalent form of dementia, primarily impacting the elderly, and presently lacking any known cure.

  30. From dementia prevention research to global FINGER-based multi-domain interventions and implementation strategies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cerebral Circulation - Cognition and Behavior 2025-01-01 Prevention trials

    The demographic transition during the recent decades has resulted in an increase in older adults globally.

  31. Global burden of young-onset dementia, from 1990 to 2021: an age-period-cohort analysis from the global burden of disease study 2021

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Translational Psychiatry 2025 How common it is

    Using three decades of global health data, this study tracked how young-onset dementia (before age 65) has changed since 1990.

  32. Global patterns linking total meat supply to dementia incidence: A population-based ecological study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. AIMS neuroscience 2025-01-01 Disparities

    Dementia cases are projected to triple globally by 2050, largely driven by an aging population.

  33. Navigating Dementia and Delirium: Balancing Identity and Interests in Advance Directives

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Nursing Philosophy 2025-01-01 Clinical safety

    The moral authority of advance directives (ADs) in the context of persons living with dementia (PLWD) has sparked a multifaceted debate, encompassing concerns such as authenticity and the appropriate involvement of caregivers.

  34. Neighborhood Spatial Social Polarization and Dementia Disparities Among U.S. Medicare Beneficiaries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Alzheimer's & Dementia 2025 Risk factors

    SSP is a flexible and predictive neighborhood‐level measure of health disparities compared to indices like the Gini coefficient.

  35. Neurobiology of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 27 out of 100. World Family Medicine Journal/Middle East Journal of Family Medicine 2025-01-01 Disease mechanisms

    Dementia encompasses a group of progressive neurodegenerative disorders marked by cognitive, behavioural, and functional decline, underpinned by complex neurobiological processes.

  36. Privileges, and Permissions: Theorising Intersectionality and Cultures of Control in the Care of People Living With Dementia in Acute Hospital Settings

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Sociology of Health & Illness 2025-01-01 Clinical safety

    A longstanding body of public enquiries and research identifies people living with dementia experience systemic inequalities within hospital settings, concluding a focus on improving care cultures is required.

  37. Projected Prevalence and Economic Burden of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias in China: Regional Disparities and Policy Implications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Health Data Science 2025-01-01 Disparities

    By 2060, ADRD cases in China are projected to reach approximately 49.89 million, with the highest prevalence and economic burden concentrated in provinces such as Shandong, Sichuan, Jiangsu, Henan, and Guangdong.

  38. Psoriasis and dementia: A population‐based matched cohort study of adults in England

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology 2025-01-01 How common it is

    Among 360,014 individuals with psoriasis and 1,799,617 without, psoriasis was associated with a small increased risk of all-cause dementia (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR] 1.06, 95% CI 1.04-1.08; absolute rate difference 24 per 100,000 person-years).

  39. Psychosocial burdens in early- versus late-onset dementia: analysis of discrimination, stress, and loneliness in the All of Us Research Program

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Innovation in Aging 2025-01-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    EOD participants reported the highest mean levels of all psychosocial outcomes (e.g., everyday discrimination score of 8.3 in EOD vs 4.6 in LOD and 6.8 in no-dementia).

  40. Reimagining dementia screening: A stakeholder-informed perspective on artificial intelligence, digital biomarkers, and real-world implementation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease Reports 2025-01-01 Digital health tools

    The approval of disease-modifying treatments for Alzheimer's disease demands a rethinking of cognitive screening.

  41. Reliability and Validity of the Thai Version of the PAINAD Scale: An Extended Application of Pain Assessment in the Moderately Severe Stage of Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 29 out of 100. Siriraj Medical Journal/San Sirirat 2025-01-01 Clinical safety

    The CVI of PAINAD-Th was 1.00 for forward translation and 0.93 for back translation.

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

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Alzheimer's & Dementia 2025 Health systems and care delivery

    Differences in system‐level factors such as access to dementia specialists is a contributing factor to differences in diagnosis rates in MA and TM.

  43. Rural–urban disparities of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias: A scoping review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia Translational Research & Clinical Interventions 2025-01-01 Disparities

    The rising age of the global population has made Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) a critical public health problem, with significant health-related disparities observed between rural and urban areas.

  44. Speed of Processing Training for Stress Adaptation in Caregivers of a Family Member With Dementia: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Innovation in Aging 2025-01-01 Prevention trials

    The VSOP/A group had significantly improved processing speed and attention performance compared to the VE group, and these differences persisted through 6 months postintervention.

  45. The association between the severity of cognitive impairment and the risk of falls in patients with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Family Medicine & Primary Care Review 2025-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Our findings indicate that the severity of cognitive impairment was significantly associated with an increased risk of falls in patients with dementia.

  46. The deprivation cascade hypothesis of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Aging and Health Research 2025-01-01 Disparities

    • Brain health depends on certain environmental resources of which socioeconomically disadvantaged people in particular are deprived. • Resource deprivation may increase dementia risk due to reduced attainment for deprived populations. • Improving attainment across the lifetime for disadvantaged individuals should be a public health priority for dementia prevention.

  47. The potential impact of optimal blood pressure treatment intensity to reduce disparities in dementia between Black and White individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-01-01 Disparities

    average annual dementia incidence in White, but not Black, adults (1% versus 0%), due to hypertensive individuals' greater survival, and reduce annual ASCVD events more in Black than White adults (13% versus 5%).

  48. Trajectory of Cardiogenic Dementia: A New Perspective

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine 2025-01-01 How common it is

    The functions of the heart and brain are closely linked and essential to support human life by the heart-brain axis, which is a complex interconnection between the heart and brain.

  49. Traumatic Brain Injury and Dementia: Mechanisms, Risk Stratification, and Clinical Management

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Clinical Neurology 2025-01-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the main mechanisms underlying health issues associated with functional and structural brain changes.

  50. Two new positive psychosocial measures for persons living with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia Translational Research & Clinical Interventions 2025-01-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Data from both pilot studies are reported including item analysis and quantitative and qualitative results.

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