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Newest in this topic

  1. The Contribution of Routinely Collected Clinical Data to Dementia Identification in Primary Care: A Cross-Sectional Study 2026-10-28
  2. Racial Differences and Temporal Trends in Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Disease-Related 2026-10-24
  3. Prognostic heterogeneity within cognitive stages: a nationwide cohort study of everyday functional difficulties and mortality in 202,508 older adults 2026-10-23

Studies

266 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1989 to 2026

Top journals

  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 38
  • Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 21
  • medRxiv 19
  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 15
  • Research Square 15

105 journals in all.

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  1. Receipt of Eye Care Services among Medicare Beneficiaries with and without Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Ophthalmology 2020-02-25 Brain scans and imaging

    A total of 4 451 200 beneficiaries met inclusion criteria; 3 805 718 (85.5%) received eye care during the study period, and 391 556 (8.8%) had diagnosed dementia.

  2. Deintensification of Diabetes Medications among Veterans at the End of Life in VA Nursing Homes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2020-02-17 Digital health tools

    Deintensification of treatment regimens occurred in less than one-half of potentially overtreated Veterans and was more strongly associated with low HbA1c values and use of medications with high risk for hypoglycemia, rather than other resident characteristics.

  3. Stratifying risk for dementia onset using large-scale electronic health record data: A retrospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020-01-16 Digital health tools

    A cognitive symptom measure identified in discharge notes facilitated stratification of risk for dementia up to 8 years before diagnosis.

  4. Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias in Older African American and White Veterans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020 Disparities

    Patients had a mean age of 70.4 (±6.6) years and 97.8% were men.

  5. Dependence Clusters in Alzheimer Disease and Medicare Expenditures: A Longitudinal Analysis From the Predictors Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2020 Costs and economics

    KmL identified 2 distinct Dependence Scale clusters: (A) high initial dependence, faster decline, and (B) low initial dependence, slower decline.

  6. Using Policy to Improve Access to Care for Persons With Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of gerontological nursing 2019-12-01 Costs and economics

    As Americans increase life expectancies, one disease that has captured federal attention is Alzheimer's disease.

  7. Recruitment and retention of underrepresented populations in Alzheimer's disease research: A systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2019-11-19 Disparities

    Overall, the quantity and quality of available evidence to inform best practices in recruitment, retention, and inclusion of underrepresented populations in ADRD research are low.

  8. Development and Validation of eRADAR: A Tool Using EHR Data to Detect Unrecognized Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2019-10-14 Digital health tools

    The eRADAR tool uses existing EHR data to detect patients with good accuracy who may have unrecognized dementia.

  9. Economic burden for Alzheimer's disease in China from 2010 to 2050: a modelling study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of market access & health policy 2019-09-26 Costs and economics

    The costs of AD were estimated to be from around 91 billion RMB in 2010 to 332 billion in 2050.

  10. Perceptions of precision medicine among diverse dementia caregivers and professional providers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2019-09-11 Disparities

    Participants indicated skepticism regarding the use of precision medicine in their communities.

  11. Longitudinal analysis of dementia diagnosis and specialty care among racially diverse Medicare beneficiaries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2019-09-04 Costs and economics

    Ascertainment of etiologic dementia subtype may inform hereditary risk and facilitate financial and care planning.

  12. High-Need Phenotypes in Medicare Beneficiaries: Drivers of Variation in Utilization and Outcomes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2019-08-27 Costs and economics

    Five phenotypes were identified: (1) comorbid ischemic heart disease with hospitalization and skilled nursing facility use (22% of the HN sample), (2) comorbid ischemic heart disease with home care use (23%), (3) home care use (12%), (4) high comorbidity with hospitalization (32%), and (5) Alzheimer's disease/related dementias with functional dependency and nursing home use (11%).

  13. 30-Day Emergency Department Revisit Rates among Older Adults with Documented Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2019-08-12 Digital health tools

    Dementia diagnoses were a significant predictor of 30-day ED revisits.

  14. Cost of dementia in Medicare managed care: a systematic literature review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. The American journal of managed care 2019-08-01 Costs and economics

    Despite the growth in Medicare managed care enrollment, only 9 papers report the costs of care for individuals with ADRD within these plans, and only 1 study reports data less than 10 years old.

  15. The Real-World Medicare Costs of Alzheimer Disease: Considerations for Policy and Care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy 2019-07 Costs and economics

    This study found that 40% of deceased beneficiaries have Alzheimer disease or unspecified dementia diagnoses in their claims history.

  16. The costs of dementia subtypes to California Medicare fee-for-service, 2015

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2019-06-04 Costs and economics

    3,001,987 Medicare beneficiaries were identified, of which 8.2% had a dementia diagnosis.

  17. Blindness and Visual Impairment in the Medicare Population: Disparities and Association with Hip Fracture and Neuropsychiatric Outcomes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Ophthalmic epidemiology 2019-05-07 Digital health tools

    The prevalence of low vision in the Medicare population was 994/100,000 and increased significantly with age, Black (1,854/100,000) or Hispanic (2,862/100,000) race/ethnicity, female gender (1,181/100,000), and Medicaid eligibility (2,975/100,000).

  18. Medicare expenditures attributable to dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Health services research 2019-03-13 Costs and economics

    Dementia's five-year incremental cost to the traditional Medicare program is approximately $15 700 per patient, nearly half of which is incurred in the first year after diagnosis.

  19. Health Care Utilization and Cost Outcomes of a Comprehensive Dementia Care Program for Medicare Beneficiaries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. JAMA internal medicine 2019-02-01 Digital health tools

    Program participants (n = 382 men, n = 701 women; mean [SD] age, 82.10 [7.90] years; age range 54-101 years) were less likely to be admitted to a long-term care facility (hazard ratio, 0.60; 95% CI, 0.59-0.61) than those not participating in the dementia care program (n = 759 men, n = 1407 women; mean [SD] age, 82.42 [8.50] years; age range, 34-103 years).

  20. Predictions of Alzheimer's disease treatment and care costs in European countries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. PloS one 2019-01-25 Costs and economics

    The results of the simulations show that by prolonging the length of a person's 'stay' in the Mild, Moderate, or Severe stage, the total cost of care for all persons with AD will increase by 2080.

  21. Evaluation of Medicare Claims Data as a Tool to Identify Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019-01-01 Digital health tools

    Database linkage to Medicare claims records is an efficient and reasonably accurate tool to identify dementia cases in a population-based cohort.

  22. Measuring Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias in Diverse Populations Using Medicare Claims Data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019 Costs and economics

    We examined how methods used for identifying dementia in administrative claims affected dementia incidence across racial/ethnic populations using a 100% sample of Medicare beneficiaries (n = 23,793,452).

  23. Systematic Multi-Domain Alzheimer's Risk Reduction Trial (SMARRT): Study Protocol

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019 Prevention trials

    This article describes the protocol for the Systematic Multi-domain Alzheimer's Risk Reduction Trial (SMARRT), a single-blind randomized pilot trial to test a personalized, pragmatic, multi-domain Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk reduction intervention in a US integrated healthcare delivery system.

  24. Perspectives on ethnic and racial disparities in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias: Update and areas of immediate need

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2018-12-13 Disparities

    Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRDs) are a global crisis facing the aging population and society as a whole.

  25. Vision Impairment and Risk of Dementia: Findings from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2018-08-11 Risk factors

    Our study confirms and extends findings from other countries, demonstrating cross-sectional associations between moderate and poor self-rated vision and dementia in England in all participants aged 50 and older and longitudinally over an 11-year period in those aged 50 to 69.

  26. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Dementia Risk Among Individuals With Low Education

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2018-05-23 Disparities

    As indicated by Cox regression modeling, dementia risk of low-educated individuals was not significantly different between ethnic groups but was related to having an APOE e4 allele (hazard ratio [HR] 1.89), depression (HR 1.67), stroke (HR 1.60), and smoking (HR 1.32).

  27. Is Cancer Protective for Subsequent Alzheimer's Disease Risk? Evidence From the Utah Population Database

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 2017-10-01 Digital health tools

    Careful consideration of model specification and the profound effects of mortality selection in the older adult population is essential when investigating the relationship between aging-related diseases such as cancer and AD.

  28. A Systematic Review of Dementia-related Stigma Research: Can We Move the Stigma Dial?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2017-09-12 Disparities

    Stigma negatively affects individuals with cognitive impairment and dementia.

  29. Hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions and unplanned readmissions among Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2017-09-05 Digital health tools

    Our findings may suggest potential deficiencies in ambulatory care and postdischarge care related to managing comorbidities among Medicare fee-for-service ADRD patients.

  30. Dementia and fragility fractures: Issues and solutions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Injury 2017-08-26 Costs and economics

    Dementia and fragility fractures are two conditions that pose significant morbidity and mortality to the elderly population.

  31. Societal and Family Lifetime Cost of Dementia: Implications for Policy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2017-08-17 Costs and economics

    Dementia substantially increases lifetime costs of care.

  32. Dementia prevalence and incidence in a federation of European Electronic Health Record databases: The European Medical Informatics Framework resource

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2017-07-21 Digital health tools

    The European Medical Information Framework initiative supports EHR data on unprecedented number of people with dementia.

  33. Direct and indirect cost of managing alzheimer's disease and related dementias in the United States

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Expert review of pharmacoeconomics & outcomes research 2017-04-01 Caregiving

    Care of individuals with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) poses special challenges.

  34. Population-based stroke and dementia incidence trends: Age and sex variations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2017-03-28 Digital health tools

    The concomitant decline in stroke and dementia incidence rates may depict how successful stroke prevention has targeted shared risk factors of both conditions, especially at advanced ages where such risk factors are highly prevalent.

  35. 2017 Alzheimer's disease facts and figures

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2017-03-14 End-of-life care

    This article describes the public health impact of Alzheimer's disease (AD), including incidence and prevalence, mortality rates, costs of care, and the overall impact on caregivers and society.

  36. Associations between specific autoimmune diseases and subsequent dementia: retrospective record-linkage cohort study, UK

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Journal of epidemiology and community health 2017-03-01 Digital health tools

    The associations with vascular dementia may be one component of a broader association between autoimmune diseases and vascular damage.

  37. Low Completion and Disparities in Advance Care Planning Activities Among Older Medicare Beneficiaries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. JAMA Internal Medicine 2016-11-01 End-of-life care

    Further, we do not know if ACP uptake is greater among those in worse health and with poorer prognoses.

  38. Patterns of health service use in community living older adults with dementia and comorbid conditions: a population-based retrospective cohort study in Ontario, Canada

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. BMC geriatrics 2016-10-26 Digital health tools

    Comorbidities in community-living older adults with dementia are common and account for a substantial proportion of health service use and costs in this population.

  39. Rates of Recovery to Pre-Fracture Function in Older Persons with Hip Fracture: an Observational Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of general internal medicine 2016-09-07 Costs and economics

    Recovery rates are low, even among those with higher levels of pre-fracture functional status, and are worse for patients who are older, cognitively impaired, and who have multiple comorbidities.

  40. Identification of Physician-Diagnosed Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias in Population-Based Administrative Data: A Validation Study Using Family Physicians' Electronic Medical Records

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2016-08-01 Digital health tools

    Algorithms developed from health administrative data are sensitive and specific for identifying older adults with AD-RD.

  41. [The Social Costs of Dementia in Japan: Focusing on the Informal Care Cost]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Brain and nerve = Shinkei kenkyu no shinpo 2016-08 Caregiving

    Due to the rapid increase of the number in people with dementia, social costs of dementia are also expected to rise.

  42. Predicting imminent risk for fracture in patients aged 50 or older with osteoporosis using US claims data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Archives of osteoporosis 2016-07-30 Digital health tools

    In patients with osteoporosis and no recent fracture, falls, older age, poorer health status, comorbidities, and other potential fall risk factors were predictive of imminent risk for fracture.

  43. Medicare and Amyloid PET Imaging: The Battle Over Evidence

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of aging & social policy 2016-06-10 Brain scans and imaging

    We examine a recent dispute regarding the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) refusal to unconditionally pay for amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) imaging for Medicare beneficiaries being assessed for Alzheimer's disease.

  44. Poorer outcomes and greater healthcare costs for hospitalised older people with dementia and delirium: a retrospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2016-04-25 Digital health tools

    Hospitalised people with cognitive impairment experience significantly greater length of stay and when discharged to their usual residence are more likely to be readmitted to hospital within 28 days compared with those without cognitive impairment.

  45. Emergency Department Use Among Older Adults With Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2016-01-01 Costs and economics

    Although persons with dementia are frequently hospitalized, relatively little is known about the health profile, patterns of health care use, and mortality rates for patients with dementia who access care in the emergency department (ED).

  46. This study provides evidence that the increase in dementia-free life years went together with an absolute compression of life years with dementia.

  47. Medical costs of Alzheimer's disease misdiagnosis among US Medicare beneficiaries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2015-07-21 Costs and economics

    Patients with prior AD diagnosis used substantially more medical services every year until their VD/PD diagnosis, resulting in incremental annual medical costs of approximately $9,500-$14,000.

  48. Increased Risk of Dementia in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Medicine 2015-06-01 Digital health tools

    Neurodegenerative disease in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was observed.

  49. Direct medical costs and source of cost differences across the spectrum of cognitive decline: a population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2015-04-06 Digital health tools

    Cost estimates did not differ significantly between CN and MCI.

  50. Risk of dementia in peritoneal dialysis patients compared with hemodialysis patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Peritoneal dialysis international : journal of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis 2015-03-05 Digital health tools

    Dialysis modality is associated with incident dementia in a cohort of older ESRD patients.

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