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Dementia Risk Reduction
Continuing education for the prevention of mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's-type dementia- a systematic review and overview of systematic reviews
Core outcome measures for interventions to prevent or slow the progress of dementia for people living with mild to moderate dementia: Systematic review and consensus recommendations.
Late-life cognitive activity and dementia: a systematic review and bias analysis
Additional Resources
Repurposing Proteostasis-Modifying Drugs to Prevent or Treat Age-Related Dementia- A Systematic Review
Vitamin and mineral supplementation for preventing dementia or delaying cognitive decline in people with mild cognitive impairment
Loneliness and social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic
Zinc, Carnosine, and Neurodegenerative Diseases
Protective Effects of Indian Spice Curcumin Against Amyloid Beta in Alzheimer’s Disease
Complementary and Integrative Medicine for Neurologic Conditions
A Novel Anti-Inflammatory Role of Omega-3 PUFAs in Prevention and Treatment of Atherosclerosis and Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia
Nutritional prevention of cognitive decline and dementia
Rising Tide: The Impact of Dementia on Canadian Society
The Importance of Delirium and Delirium Prevention in Older Adults During Lockdowns
The interface between delirium and dementia in elderly adults
Delirium in elderly people
Depression and risk for Alzheimer disease- systematic review, meta-analysis, and metaregression analysis
Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission
Environmental and lifestyle risk factors for early-onset dementia: a systematic review
Multidomain lifestyle intervention benefits a large elderly population at risk for cognitive decline and dementia regardless of baseline characteristics: The FINGER trial
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Driving and Dementia
Driving Errors in Parkinson’s Disease: Moving Closer to Predicting On-Road Outcomes
Driving impairment and crash risk in Parkinson disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
A longitudinal study of drivers with Alzheimer disease
Longitudinal driving performance in early-stage dementia of the Alzheimer type
Predictors of driving cessation in mild-to-moderate dementia
Systematic review of driving risk and the efficacy of compensatory strategies in persons with dementia
Additional Resources
Psychosocial Care
A meta-review of stress, coping and interventions in dementia and dementia caregiving
Exploring psychosocial interventions for people with dementia that enhance personhood and relate to legacy- an integrative review
Meeting psychosocial needs for persons with dementia in home care services - a qualitative study of different perceptions and practices among health care providers
Additional Resources
The Emergence of Dementia as a Health Concern Among First Nations Populations in Alberta, Canada
Virtual care for patients with Alzheimer disease and related dementias during the COVID-19 era and beyond
Compassion Fatigue among Healthcare, Emergency and Community Service Workers: A Systematic Review
Social support and subjective burden in caregivers of adults and older adults: A meta-analysis
The caregiving phenomenon and caregiver participation in dementia
Association Between Palliative Care and Patient and Caregiver Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Source of Social Support and Caregiving Self-Efficacy on Caregiver Burden and Patient's Quality of Life: A Path Analysis on Patients with Palliative Care Needs and Their Caregivers
Multifactorial Examination of Caregiver Burden in a National Sample of Family and Unpaid Caregivers
Informal and Formal Social Support and Caregiver Burden: The AGES Caregiver Survey
Preventing, managing and treating compassion fatigue
Measuring the Caregiver Burden of Caring for Community-Residing People with Alzheimer's Disease
Web-Based Interventions to Improve Mental Health in Home Caregivers of People With Dementia: Meta-Analysis
Modern Caregiving in Canada
The effectiveness of interventions in supporting self-management of informal caregivers of people with dementia; a systematic meta review
Cognitive Therapy for Dementia Patients: A Systematic Review
Cognitive Training Using a Novel Memory Game on an iPad in Patients with Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment (aMCI)
Day care for dementia patients from a family caregiver's point of view: a questionnaire study on expected quality and predictors of utilisation - Part II
Preventing loss of independence through exercise (PLIÉ): a pilot clinical trial in older adults with dementia
Psychosocial interventions for Alzheimer's disease cognitive symptoms: a Bayesian network meta-analysis
The CARE pathway model for dementia: psychosocial and rehabilitative strategies for care in young-onset dementias
The effects of adult day services on family caregivers' daily stress, affect, and health: outcomes from the Daily Stress and Health (DaSH) study
The influence of day care centres designed for people with dementia on family caregivers - a qualitative study
The Role of Adult Day Services in Supporting the Occupational Participation of People with Dementia and Their Carers: An Integrative Review
Providing trauma-informed care
Trauma-Informed Hospice and Palliative Care
Acupuncture for Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Acupuncture for Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia: An Overview of Systematic Reviews
Effectiveness and Safety of Aromatherapy in Managing Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review
Herbal Medicine for Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
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Responsive Behaviours
Additional Resources
An international road map to improve pain assessment in people with impaired cognition: the development of the Pain Assessment in Impaired Cognition (PAIC) meta-tool.
Development and Psychometric Evaluation of the Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia (PAINAD) Scale
Efficacy of nonpharmacologic interventions for agitation in advanced dementia: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial.
Efficacy of treating pain to reduce behavioural disturbances in residents of nursing homes with dementia: cluster randomised clinical trial
Identifying and Managing Pain in People with Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Types of Dementia: A Systematic Review
Position Statement of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry Regarding Principles of Care for Patients With Dementia Resulting From Alzheimer Disease
Predictors of the impact of nonpharmacologic interventions for agitation in nursing home residents with advanced dementia.
Progressively Lowered Stress Threshold Model: Understanding Behavioral Symptoms of Dementia
Quantifying the unmet needs of caregivers of people with dementia: a critical review of the quality of measures
Sexual disinhibition and dementia
Simulated presence therapy for dementia (Review)
Systematic review of systematic reviews of non-pharmacological interventions to treat behavioural disturbances in older patients with dementia. The SENATOR-OnTop series.
The MOBID-2 pain scale: Reliability and responsiveness to pain in patients with dementia
Which unmet needs contribute to behavior problems in persons with advanced dementia?
Gabapentin and pregabalin to treat aggressivity in dementia- a systematic review and illustrative case report
Management of the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia
Pharmacologic Management of Agitation in Patients with Dementia
Valproate preparations for agitation in dementia
Pharmacotherapy of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia - State of the Art and Future Progress
Cannabinoids for the Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Dementia- A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Management of neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia in clinical settings: recommendations from a multidisciplinary expert panel
Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial of Nabilone for Agitation in Alzheimer's Disease
Delayed-onset post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in dementia
Posttraumatic stress disorder and risk of dementia among US veterans
Medical cannabinoids for treatment of neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia: a systematic review
Accuracy of telephone screening tools to identify dementia patients remotely- systematic review
(Dis-)Connected Dots in Dementia with Lewy Bodies-A Systematic Review of Connectivity Studies
Informant-based assessment instruments for dementia in people with intellectual disability: A systematic review and standardised evaluation
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Screening, Assessment & Pharmacological Treatments
Peace of mind: A community-industry-academic partnership to adapt dementia technology for Anishinaabe communities on Manitoulin Island
Developing the Canadian Indigenous Cognitive Assessment for Use With Indigenous Older Anishinaabe Adults in Ontario, Canada
Antidepressants for treating depression in dementia
Antipsychotic Medication for Prevention and Treatment of Delirium in Hospitalized Adults- A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Gabapentin and pregabalin to treat aggressivity in dementia- a systematic review and illustrative case report
Pharmacologic Management of Agitation in Patients with Dementia
Valproate preparations for agitation in dementia
Pharmacotherapy of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia - State of the Art and Future Progress
Challenges in disclosing and receiving a diagnosis of dementia: a systematic review of practice from the perspectives of people with dementia, carers, and healthcare professionals
A Randomized Placebo-Controlled Discontinuation Study of Cholinesterase Inhibitors in Institutionalized Patients With Moderate to Severe Alzheimer Disease
Donepezil and memantine for moderate-to-severe Alzheimer's disease
Memantine for dementia
Memantine in moderate-to-severe Alzheimer's disease
Memantine in patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration: a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
Recommendations of the 4th Canadian Consensus Conference on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia (CCCDTD4)
Subtypes of Dementia
A review of cognitive impairment and differential diagnosis in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus.
Current Treatment Options for Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease Dementia
Dementia with Lewy bodies: an update and outlook
Diagnosis and management of dementia with Lewy bodies
Frontotemporal Dementia
Frontotemporal dementia: a randomised, controlled trial with trazodone.
Frontotemporal dementia: latest evidence and clinical implications
Frontotemporal lobar degeneration: A consensus on clinical diagnostic criteria
Hearing and dementia
Lewy Body Dementias: Dementia With Lewy Bodies and Parkinson Disease Dementia
Non-Alzheimer’s dementia 1: Frontotemporal dementia
Non-Alzheimer’s dementia 2: Lewy body dementias
Practice guideline: Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: Response to shunting and predictors of response
Reversible long-standing severe disability in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus
Rivastigmine- the advantages of dual inhibition of acetylcholinesterase and butyrylcholinesterase and its role in subcortical vascular dementia and Parkinson's disease dementia
Role of Donepezil in the Management of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia with Lewy Bodies
Sensitivity of revised diagnostic criteria for the behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia
A novel PSEN1 (S230N) mutation causing early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease associated with prosopagnosia, hoarding, and Parkinsonism
Additional Resources
Biological subtypes of Alzheimer disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis
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Consent and Capacity
Additional Resources
Assessing financial capacity in patients with Alzheimer disease: A conceptual model and prototype instrument
Finances in the older patient with cognitive impairment: "He didn't want me to take over"
Delirium
A quality improvement approach to cognitive assessment on hospice admission: could we use the 4AT or Short CAM?
Comparison of delirium detection tools in acute care: A rapid review
Delirium detection in older acute medical inpatients: a multicentre prospective comparative diagnostic test accuracy study of the 4AT and the confusion assessment method
Identifying Delirium in Persons With Moderate or Severe Dementia: Review of Challenges and an Illustrative Approach
The 4 'A's test for detecting delirium in acute medical patients: a diagnostic accuracy study
Validation of Two Screening Tools for Detecting Delirium in Older Patients in the Post-Anaesthetic Care Unit: A Diagnostic Test Accuracy Study
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Dementia Risk Reduction
Continuing education for the prevention of mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's-type dementia- a systematic review and overview of systematic reviews
Core outcome measures for interventions to prevent or slow the progress of dementia for people living with mild to moderate dementia: Systematic review and consensus recommendations.
Late-life cognitive activity and dementia: a systematic review and bias analysis
Additional Resources
Repurposing Proteostasis-Modifying Drugs to Prevent or Treat Age-Related Dementia- A Systematic Review
Vitamin and mineral supplementation for preventing dementia or delaying cognitive decline in people with mild cognitive impairment
Loneliness and social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic
Zinc, Carnosine, and Neurodegenerative Diseases
Protective Effects of Indian Spice Curcumin Against Amyloid Beta in Alzheimer’s Disease
Complementary and Integrative Medicine for Neurologic Conditions
A Novel Anti-Inflammatory Role of Omega-3 PUFAs in Prevention and Treatment of Atherosclerosis and Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia
Nutritional prevention of cognitive decline and dementia
Rising Tide: The Impact of Dementia on Canadian Society
The Importance of Delirium and Delirium Prevention in Older Adults During Lockdowns
The interface between delirium and dementia in elderly adults
Delirium in elderly people
Depression and risk for Alzheimer disease- systematic review, meta-analysis, and metaregression analysis
Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission
Environmental and lifestyle risk factors for early-onset dementia: a systematic review
Multidomain lifestyle intervention benefits a large elderly population at risk for cognitive decline and dementia regardless of baseline characteristics: The FINGER trial
Driving and Dementia
Driving Errors in Parkinson’s Disease: Moving Closer to Predicting On-Road Outcomes
Driving impairment and crash risk in Parkinson disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
A longitudinal study of drivers with Alzheimer disease
Longitudinal driving performance in early-stage dementia of the Alzheimer type
Predictors of driving cessation in mild-to-moderate dementia
Systematic review of driving risk and the efficacy of compensatory strategies in persons with dementia
Additional Resources
Psychosocial Care
A meta-review of stress, coping and interventions in dementia and dementia caregiving
Exploring psychosocial interventions for people with dementia that enhance personhood and relate to legacy- an integrative review
Meeting psychosocial needs for persons with dementia in home care services - a qualitative study of different perceptions and practices among health care providers
Additional Resources
The Emergence of Dementia as a Health Concern Among First Nations Populations in Alberta, Canada
Virtual care for patients with Alzheimer disease and related dementias during the COVID-19 era and beyond
Compassion Fatigue among Healthcare, Emergency and Community Service Workers: A Systematic Review
Social support and subjective burden in caregivers of adults and older adults: A meta-analysis
The caregiving phenomenon and caregiver participation in dementia
Association Between Palliative Care and Patient and Caregiver Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Source of Social Support and Caregiving Self-Efficacy on Caregiver Burden and Patient's Quality of Life: A Path Analysis on Patients with Palliative Care Needs and Their Caregivers
Multifactorial Examination of Caregiver Burden in a National Sample of Family and Unpaid Caregivers
Informal and Formal Social Support and Caregiver Burden: The AGES Caregiver Survey
Preventing, managing and treating compassion fatigue
Measuring the Caregiver Burden of Caring for Community-Residing People with Alzheimer's Disease
Web-Based Interventions to Improve Mental Health in Home Caregivers of People With Dementia: Meta-Analysis
Modern Caregiving in Canada
The effectiveness of interventions in supporting self-management of informal caregivers of people with dementia; a systematic meta review
Cognitive Therapy for Dementia Patients: A Systematic Review
Cognitive Training Using a Novel Memory Game on an iPad in Patients with Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment (aMCI)
Day care for dementia patients from a family caregiver's point of view: a questionnaire study on expected quality and predictors of utilisation - Part II
Preventing loss of independence through exercise (PLIÉ): a pilot clinical trial in older adults with dementia
Psychosocial interventions for Alzheimer's disease cognitive symptoms: a Bayesian network meta-analysis
The CARE pathway model for dementia: psychosocial and rehabilitative strategies for care in young-onset dementias
The effects of adult day services on family caregivers' daily stress, affect, and health: outcomes from the Daily Stress and Health (DaSH) study
The influence of day care centres designed for people with dementia on family caregivers - a qualitative study
The Role of Adult Day Services in Supporting the Occupational Participation of People with Dementia and Their Carers: An Integrative Review
Providing trauma-informed care
Trauma-Informed Hospice and Palliative Care
Acupuncture for Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Acupuncture for Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia: An Overview of Systematic Reviews
Effectiveness and Safety of Aromatherapy in Managing Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review
Herbal Medicine for Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Responsive Behaviours
Additional Resources
An international road map to improve pain assessment in people with impaired cognition: the development of the Pain Assessment in Impaired Cognition (PAIC) meta-tool.
Development and Psychometric Evaluation of the Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia (PAINAD) Scale
Efficacy of nonpharmacologic interventions for agitation in advanced dementia: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial.
Efficacy of treating pain to reduce behavioural disturbances in residents of nursing homes with dementia: cluster randomised clinical trial
Identifying and Managing Pain in People with Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Types of Dementia: A Systematic Review
Position Statement of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry Regarding Principles of Care for Patients With Dementia Resulting From Alzheimer Disease
Predictors of the impact of nonpharmacologic interventions for agitation in nursing home residents with advanced dementia.
Progressively Lowered Stress Threshold Model: Understanding Behavioral Symptoms of Dementia
Quantifying the unmet needs of caregivers of people with dementia: a critical review of the quality of measures
Sexual disinhibition and dementia
Simulated presence therapy for dementia (Review)
Systematic review of systematic reviews of non-pharmacological interventions to treat behavioural disturbances in older patients with dementia. The SENATOR-OnTop series.
The MOBID-2 pain scale: Reliability and responsiveness to pain in patients with dementia
Which unmet needs contribute to behavior problems in persons with advanced dementia?
Gabapentin and pregabalin to treat aggressivity in dementia- a systematic review and illustrative case report
Management of the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia
Pharmacologic Management of Agitation in Patients with Dementia
Valproate preparations for agitation in dementia
Pharmacotherapy of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia - State of the Art and Future Progress
Cannabinoids for the Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Dementia- A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Management of neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia in clinical settings: recommendations from a multidisciplinary expert panel
Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial of Nabilone for Agitation in Alzheimer's Disease
Delayed-onset post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in dementia
Posttraumatic stress disorder and risk of dementia among US veterans
Medical cannabinoids for treatment of neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia: a systematic review
Accuracy of telephone screening tools to identify dementia patients remotely- systematic review
(Dis-)Connected Dots in Dementia with Lewy Bodies-A Systematic Review of Connectivity Studies
Informant-based assessment instruments for dementia in people with intellectual disability: A systematic review and standardised evaluation
Screening, Assessment & Pharmacological Treatments
Peace of mind: A community-industry-academic partnership to adapt dementia technology for Anishinaabe communities on Manitoulin Island
Developing the Canadian Indigenous Cognitive Assessment for Use With Indigenous Older Anishinaabe Adults in Ontario, Canada
Antidepressants for treating depression in dementia
Antipsychotic Medication for Prevention and Treatment of Delirium in Hospitalized Adults- A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Gabapentin and pregabalin to treat aggressivity in dementia- a systematic review and illustrative case report
Pharmacologic Management of Agitation in Patients with Dementia
Valproate preparations for agitation in dementia
Pharmacotherapy of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia - State of the Art and Future Progress
Challenges in disclosing and receiving a diagnosis of dementia: a systematic review of practice from the perspectives of people with dementia, carers, and healthcare professionals
A Randomized Placebo-Controlled Discontinuation Study of Cholinesterase Inhibitors in Institutionalized Patients With Moderate to Severe Alzheimer Disease
Donepezil and memantine for moderate-to-severe Alzheimer's disease
Memantine for dementia
Memantine in moderate-to-severe Alzheimer's disease
Memantine in patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration: a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
Recommendations of the 4th Canadian Consensus Conference on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia (CCCDTD4)
Subtypes of Dementia
A review of cognitive impairment and differential diagnosis in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus.
Current Treatment Options for Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease Dementia
Dementia with Lewy bodies: an update and outlook
Diagnosis and management of dementia with Lewy bodies
Frontotemporal Dementia
Frontotemporal dementia: a randomised, controlled trial with trazodone.
Frontotemporal dementia: latest evidence and clinical implications
Frontotemporal lobar degeneration: A consensus on clinical diagnostic criteria
Hearing and dementia
Lewy Body Dementias: Dementia With Lewy Bodies and Parkinson Disease Dementia
Non-Alzheimer’s dementia 1: Frontotemporal dementia
Non-Alzheimer’s dementia 2: Lewy body dementias
Practice guideline: Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: Response to shunting and predictors of response
Reversible long-standing severe disability in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus
Rivastigmine- the advantages of dual inhibition of acetylcholinesterase and butyrylcholinesterase and its role in subcortical vascular dementia and Parkinson's disease dementia
Role of Donepezil in the Management of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia with Lewy Bodies
Sensitivity of revised diagnostic criteria for the behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia
A novel PSEN1 (S230N) mutation causing early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease associated with prosopagnosia, hoarding, and Parkinsonism
Additional Resources
Biological subtypes of Alzheimer disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Consent and Capacity
Additional Resources
Assessing financial capacity in patients with Alzheimer disease: A conceptual model and prototype instrument
Finances in the older patient with cognitive impairment: "He didn't want me to take over"
Delirium
A quality improvement approach to cognitive assessment on hospice admission: could we use the 4AT or Short CAM?
Comparison of delirium detection tools in acute care: A rapid review
Delirium detection in older acute medical inpatients: a multicentre prospective comparative diagnostic test accuracy study of the 4AT and the confusion assessment method
Identifying Delirium in Persons With Moderate or Severe Dementia: Review of Challenges and an Illustrative Approach
The 4 'A's test for detecting delirium in acute medical patients: a diagnostic accuracy study
Validation of Two Screening Tools for Detecting Delirium in Older Patients in the Post-Anaesthetic Care Unit: A Diagnostic Test Accuracy Study