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ArticleThe Hastings Center report2024

What Makes a Better Life for People Facing Dementia? Toward Dementia-Friendly Health and Social Policy, Medical Care, and Community Support in the United States.

Barak Gaster, Emily A Largent

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Article in The Hastings Center report, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 11% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Mind Care: The Moral Significance of the Dementia Caregiving Dyad.The American journal of bioethics : AJOB · 2026
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  3. Competency-based training boosts dementia knowledge and skills in home care workers.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Barak Gaster
Emily A Largent

Funding

University of Washington Alzheimer's Disease Research CenterP30AG066509 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Linda K. Ko · 2020 to 2026
$29.0M
UNDERSTANDING HOW THE STUDY PARTNER REQUIREMENT IMPACTS THE DISCOVERY AND TRANSLATION OF PRECLINICAL ALZHEIMERS DISEASEK01AG064123 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI LARGENT, EMILY · 2019 to 2023
$637k
NIA NIH HHS K01 AG064123NIA NIH HHS P30 AG066509
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Taking steps to build a more dementia-friendly society is essential for addressing the needs of people experiencing dementia. Initiatives that improve the quality of life for those living with dementia are needed to lessen controllable factors that can negatively influence how people envision a future trajectory of dementia for themselves. Programs that provide better funding and better coordination for care support would lessen caregiver burden and make it more possible to imagine more people being able to live what they might consider a "good life" with dementia. Specific proposals, such as payment for dementia care managers and new systems to support high-quality, symptom-based palliative care beyond the hospice benefit of only six months, would improve and reframe how many people in the United States experience a dementia illness. Such changes should be incorporated into discussions about improving and respecting preferences in the later stages of dementia.

Indexed as

Community SupportDementiaHumansPalliative CarePublic PolicyQuality of LifeUnited Statesadvance care planningdementia carehealth care deliveryhealth policypalliative care

Identifiers

PMID38382038
PMCPMC12643118
OpenAlexW4392007585

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Registered trials

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