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Newest in this topic

  1. Elder Caregiving in Southeast Asia: A Systematic Review of Cultural Norms, Care Burdens, Carer Support and Policy Gaps 2026-10-29
  2. Beyond “Denial”: Understanding and Responding to Help-Refusal in Dementia 2026-10-26
  3. Caregiving experiences of older-adult informal family caregivers for older adults with comorbid dementia and physical disability: A qualitative study using the caregiving stress-process model 2026-10-14

Studies

195 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1982 to 2026

Top journals

  • The Gerontologist 15
  • Research Square 14
  • International journal of geriatric psychiatry 9
  • Aging & mental health 8
  • Dementia (London, England) 6

105 journals in all.

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  1. Loneliness - Cancer of the Mind

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Indian journal of palliative care 2023-05-30 Risk factors

    World is greying as the proportion of the ageing population increases and the demography is changing both in the developing and developed world.

  2. Dyadic Hair Cortisol Self-Collection Procedure

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nursing research 2023-05-24 Caregiving

    At-home, self-collection of hair provides potential advantages such as reduced participant burden, especially for vulnerable populations where transportation and different environments are challenging.

  3. Caregiver Burden and Quality of Life Across Alzheimer's Disease Severity Stages

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2023-05-08 Caregiving

    One hundred two caregivers participated.

  4. Characteristics and Predictors of Sleep Among Spousal Care Dyads Living With Chronic Conditions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 2023-03-13 Caregiving

    Sleep was correlated more among dyads living with dementia than those with other chronic conditions.

  5. Dementia Caregiving Experiences and Health Across Geographic Contexts by Race and Ethnicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 2023-03-13 Disparities

    Bivariate analyses indicated that nonmetro dementia caregivers were less racially/ethnically diverse (82.7% White, non-Hispanic) and more were spouses/partners (20.2%) than their metro counterparts (66.6% White, non-Hispanic; 13.3% spouses/partners).

  6. Mindfulness and Care Experience in Family Caregivers of Persons Living with Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports 2023-02-14 Caregiving

    Greater mindfulness was associated with positive outcomes and inversely associated with negative outcomes.

  7. The impact of loneliness and social isolation on the development of cognitive decline and Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroendocrinology 2023-02-08 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia, observed at a higher incidence in women compared with men.

  8. Social isolation is linked to classical risk factors of Alzheimer's disease-related dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. PloS one 2023-02-01 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease and related dementias is a major public health burden-compounding over upcoming years due to longevity.

  9. Enrichment of dementia caregiving relationships through psychosocial interventions: A scoping review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in medicine 2023-01-05 Caregiving

    Thirty-four studies were included. Psychosocial interventions generating enrichment among dyads mainly involved supporting dyadic engagement in shared activities, carer education or training, or structural change to the environment around PLWD.

  10. Informal Caregiving and Alzheimer's Disease: The Psychological Effect

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) 2022-12-27 Caregiving

    We identified 19 studies with primary data.

  11. '24/7' Caregiving: A Qualitative Analysis of an Emerging Phenomenon of Interest in Caregiving

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of environmental research and public health 2022-12-19 Caregiving

    The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the difficulties faced by caregivers who have to provide continuous '24/7' care to persons with dementia with minimal formal and informal support.

  12. Attitudes toward Alzheimer's disease and dementia caregiving and health outcomes: Racial and ethnic differences

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.) 2022-11-03 Disparities

    This study aimed to explore racial/ethnic differences in the attitudes toward Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and dementia caregiving among midlife women who were family caregivers of persons living with AD (MWPLAD) in the U.S. and examine the associations of the attitudes to their health outcomes.

  13. The use of psychological network analysis in informal dementia care: an empirical illustration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Aging & mental health 2022-10-25 Caregiving

    The analysis suggests a complex network of interacting variables.

  14. Promoting Social Connection in Dementia Caregivers: A Call for Empirical Development of Targeted Interventions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Gerontologist 2022-10-19 Risk factors

    Social connection is an understudied target of intervention for the health of individuals providing care for a family member with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD).

  15. Documenting the need for teaching resourcefulness skills to family caregivers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Applied nursing research : ANR 2022-08-27 Caregiving

    Caregivers differed significantly on caregiver burden (F = 2.46; p = .014) and resourcefulness (F = 2.08; p = .038).

  16. Discrepancy between self-reported and objective sleep duration among dementia caregivers and noncaregivers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine 2022-08-01 Risk factors

    Caregivers showed a greater discrepancy in sleep duration than did noncaregivers (-0.46 hour vs 0.22 hour, respectively; P = .003).

  17. Social Isolation and Incident Dementia in the Oldest-Old-A Competing Risk Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Frontiers in psychiatry 2022-06-10 Risk factors

    Excluding participants with prevalent dementia, n = 1,161 individuals were included.

  18. Fear of Incompetence in Family Caregivers and Dementia Care Transitions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. International journal of aging & human development 2022-06-09 Caregiving

    Research on interpersonal interaction dynamics in relationships between persons with dementia and their family caregivers has been limited.

  19. Providing informal care to a person living with dementia: the experiences of informal carers in Australia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Archives of gerontology and geriatrics 2022-06-01 Caregiving

    Most people with dementia live at home and rely on family and friends who provide unpaid care and support.

  20. Dementia Neuropsychiatric Symptom Frequency, Severity, and Correlates in Community-Dwelling Thai Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2022-05-13 Caregiving

    NPS frequency varied from 18% for appetite and/or eating changes to 42% for delusions.

  21. Interprofessional collaboration in palliative dementia care through the eyes of informal caregivers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Dementia (London, England) 2022-05-10 Health systems and care delivery

    A qualitative study was conducted to examine the experiences of informal caregivers of persons with dementia pertaining interprofessional collaboration with and among healthcare professionals in home care (HC), nursing homes and during home to nursing home transitions in palliative care.

  22. Interventions to reduce loneliness in caregivers: An integrative review of the literature

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Psychiatry research 2022-03-12 Risk factors

    Older adults are at an increased risk of loneliness.

  23. The Impact of COVID-19 Confinement on Cognition and Mental Health and Technology Use Among Socially Vulnerable Older People: Retrospective Cohort Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 81 out of 100. Journal of medical Internet research 2022-02-22 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Our findings show that the first months of the outbreak did not significantly impact the cognition, quality of life, perceived health status, and depression of our study population when making comparisons with baseline assessments prior to the outbreak.

  24. Stress-Busting Program for Family Caregivers: Validation of the Spanish version using biomarkers and quality-of-life measures

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Research in nursing & health 2022-02-16 Caregiving

    Hispanic family caregivers of people with dementia experience higher levels of stress compared to non-Hispanic white caregivers.

  25. The relationship between social isolation and anxiety in people with cognitive impairment in the United States

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2022-02 Risk factors

    We observed that greater social isolation was related to increased anxiety in people with cognitive impairment (coefficients = 0.7242, t = 2.51, p = 0.015), adjusting for severity of cognitive impairment, race, pain, depression, activities of daily living, and instrumental activities of daily living.

  26. Perceived Stress in Older Dementia Caregivers: Mediation by Loneliness and Depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias 2022 Risk factors

    Coupled with aging, chronic stress experienced by dementia caregivers often leads to deteriorating health.

  27. A randomized controlled trial of the "positive diary" intervention for family caregivers of people with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. Perspectives in psychiatric care 2021-12-23 Caregiving

    The intervention group showed improvement on several measures of wellbeing including Neuropsychiatric Inventory Questionnaire and Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale.

  28. The Association Between Loneliness and Psychiatric Symptomatology in Older Psychiatric Outpatients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology 2021-12-23 Risk factors

    80% of participants were lonely. Loneliness was associated with having contacts in less social network domains, in women but not in men.

  29. An App-Based Mindfulness-Based Self-compassion Program to Support Caregivers of People With Dementia: Participatory Feasibility Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. JMIR aging 2021-11-26 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Although there were no significant changes in caregiver burden, we were encouraged by the increased emotional well-being of our participants following the completion of our program.

  30. Social isolation, social support, and loneliness and their relationship with cognitive health and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2021-11-05 Risk factors

    Most participants self-reported good social health (92%) with very few socially isolated (2%), with low social support (2%) or lonely (5%).

  31. Caregiver Burden in a Culturally Diverse Memory Clinic Population: The Caregiver Strain Index-Expanded

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2021-10-26 Caregiving

    Informal caregivers in the multicultural memory clinic cohort experienced a high level of caregiver burden (mean CSI-score multicultural cohort: 6.1 [SD: 3.3]; mean CSI-score native Dutch cohort: 4.8 [SD: 3.2]).

  32. Differences in Burden Severity in Adult-Child Family Caregivers and Spousal Caregivers of Persons with Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of gerontological social work 2021-04-06 Caregiving

    Researchers are continuing to focus on the nature and sources of burden of family caregivers of persons living with dementia.

  33. Social isolation and loneliness in old age: Exploring their role in mental and physical health

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Psychiatrike = Psychiatriki 2021-03-08 Risk factors

    The current review has the ultimate scope to accurately define social isolation and loneliness while highlighting the serious repercussions on health and behavior.

  34. Caregiver identity in care partners of persons living with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Dementia (London, England) 2021-02-17 Caregiving

    Research on caregiver identity in the context of memory impairment has focused primarily on more advanced stages of the cognitive impairment trajectory (e.g., dementia caregivers), failing to capture the complex dynamics of early caregiver identity development (e.g., MCI; mild cognitive impairment caregivers).

  35. Relation among Caregivers' Burden, Abuse and Behavioural Disorder in People with Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of environmental research and public health 2021-01-31 Caregiving

    Dementia produces a loss of independence to carry out the activities of daily life.

  36. Problem-focused coping underlying lower caregiver burden in ALS-FTD: implications for caregiver intervention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis & frontotemporal degeneration 2021-01-13 Caregiving

    High-burden caregivers were more likely to be caring for patients with a diagnosis of ALS-FTD (p =.0001).

  37. Home Visit Based Mindfulness Intervention for Vietnamese American Dementia Family Caregivers: A Pilot Feasibility Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Asian/Pacific Island nursing journal 2021 Caregiving

    A total of nine VA family caregivers of PWD participated in this pilot study.

  38. Neuropsychiatric symptoms associated with family caregiver burden and depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Dementia & neuropsychologia 2021 Caregiving

    Among the 12 neuropsychiatric symptoms investigated, 10 were significantly associated with caregiver burden, while 8 showed significant correlations with depressive symptoms.

  39. Social Connectivity is Related to Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2021 Risk factors

    Among 952 participants (mean age at first neuropsychological assessment = 69±8 years, 62% women, 17% Black, 13% white, 68% Hispanic), 24% developed MCI/dementia.

  40. An Examination of Positive and Negative Dementia Caregiving Experiences

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. Clinical gerontologist 2020-12-27 Caregiving

    Enabling characteristics (e.g., race/ethnicity, caregiver education and employment and PWD education) and most predisposing characteristics (e.g., caregiver age, PWD age, relationship type) were not associated with any caregiving experience measures.

  41. Factors Influencing Social Isolation and Loneliness Among Lung Cancer Patients: A Cross-sectional Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Anticancer research 2020-12 Risk factors

    From March 2019 to March 2020, 264 patients were included.

  42. Translating the REACH OUT dementia caregiver intervention into a primary care setting: a pilot study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Aging & mental health 2020-12-01 Caregiving

    Twenty-five caregivers participated in one of four intervention groups; 21 caregivers completed the intervention (attended at least five of six group sessions).

  43. Social Frailty in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in psychiatry 2020-11-03 Risk factors

    Special attention and efforts to protect from or reduce health-related outcomes of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus triggering coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), should be applied in susceptible populations, including frail older people.

  44. Importance of loneliness in behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2020-10-29 Risk factors

    The revised UCLA loneliness scale score was not significantly associated with age, years of education, mini-mental state examination (MMSE) score, gender, living status, visual impairment, hearing impairment, and marital status.

  45. Change in Social Engagement among Incident Caregivers and Controls: Findings from the Caregiving Transitions Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Journal of aging and health 2020-09-23 Risk factors

    Incident caregivers reported lower satisfaction with social activities and greater decline in social network size than controls.

  46. Impact of COVID-19 related social support service closures on people with dementia and unpaid carers: a qualitative study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Aging & mental health 2020-09-21 Caregiving

    PLWD and carers need to receive specific practical and psychological support during the pandemic to support their well-being, which is severely affected by public health restrictions.

  47. Informal and formal care among persons with dementia immediately before nursing home admission

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. BMC geriatrics 2020-08-18 Caregiving

    A total of 395 persons with dementia were included.

  48. Piloting a Dementia Caregiver Intervention in a Primary Care Setting

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Clinical gerontologist 2020-07-18 Caregiving

    No significant effects were found for caregiver strain, depressive symptoms, and distress related to neuropsychiatric symptoms.

  49. Competing crises: COVID‐19 countermeasures and social isolation among older adults in long‐term care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Advanced Nursing 2020-07-09 End-of-life care

    This suggests that if physical distancing measures are extended for months or years until either herd immunity or a vaccination, a shocking proportion of LTC residents are likely to die under a 'new normal' of isolation that few would choose.

  50. Early Cognitive Decline and its Impact on Spouse's Loneliness

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Research in human development 2020-07-01 Risk factors

    Individual's loneliness was stable when their spouse's cognition remained normal, but increased with the spouse's TCIND.

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