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ArticleDementia & neuropsychologia

Environmental interventions to support orientation and social engagement of people with Alzheimer's disease.

Maria Carolina Dias de Azevedo, Helenice Charchat-Fichman, Vera Maria Marsicano Damazio

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Article in Dementia & neuropsychologia. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 45% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer's disease: Bridging mechanisms, management, and emerging innovations.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Maria Carolina Dias de AzevedoArts & Design Department, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro - Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0003-4679-3424
Helenice Charchat-FichmanPsychology Department, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro - Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil.ORCID 0000-0003-3797-2105
Vera Maria Marsicano DamazioArts & Design Department, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro - Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0001-8009-2117
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The built environment can be a home to compensatory strategies aimed at increasing the independence of elderly people with Alzheimer's disease, by mitigating the cognitive impairment caused by it. Objective: The aim of this study was to find out which interventions were performed in indoor environments and observe their impacts on the relief of behavioral symptoms related to the disorientation of elderly people with probable Alzheimer's disease. Methods: A systematic review was carried out using the preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analyses criteria in the MEDLINE/PubMed database. Two researchers carried out the selection of the studies, following the same methodology. The third author contributed during the writing process and in the decision-making. Results: Of note, 375 studies were identified and 20 studies were included in this systematic review. The identified interventions were classified into environmental communications and environmental characteristics. Conclusions: Environmental communications had positive results in guiding and reducing agitation. In contrast, while reducing behavioral symptoms related to orientation, environmental characteristics showed improvements mainly in social engagement and functional capacity.

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Alzheimer’s diseasedementiaevidence-based facility designinterior design and furnishings

Identifiers

PMID35509796
PMCPMC9018090
OpenAlexW4200208282

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