The Dementia Public Stigma Scale (DPSS) is a brief, user-friendly tool for assessing public stigma related to dementia. While widely used in Western contexts, it has not been validated in China. This study aimed to rigorously translate, adapt, and validate the DPSS for use in Chinese populations, filling a critical gap in dementia research.

This study aimed to examine how the current state and limitations of the English older adult care home sector, within the context of the cost of living crisis, influenced the psychological wellbeing of care home staff.

The global rise in the aging population, intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic, has increased loneliness, social isolation, and depression among older adults. This review aimed to examine the relationships between these psychological challenges and to assess the effectiveness of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-based interventions in mitigating them.

Although many dementia family caregivers receive instrumental help from relatives and friends for caregiving tasks, prior research on its impact on caregivers' mood has been inconsistent. Guided by the sociocultural stress and coping model, we used daily diary data to examine whether receiving instrumental support is associated with lower depressive mood among dementia family caregivers, and whether this association varies by caregivers' cultural motivations for caregiving (e.g. sense of duty).

The present study evaluated associations between social environment profiles and cognitive outcomes among generally healthy adults using cross-sectional data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) Comprehensive Cohort ( = 19,793).

This study explored how older men with hypogonadism perceive and navigate sexual aging, masculinity, and identity shifts within a conservative Middle Eastern context.

This randomized controlled trial compared flywheel-based resistance training with traditional resistance training on depressive symptoms in sedentary older women.

Age-related hearing loss (ARHL) and loneliness have been independently associated with poor cognitive function in older adults. However, the extent to which loneliness modifies the relationship between ARHL and cognitive impairment remains poorly understood. This study examined the independent and interactive associations of ARHL and loneliness with episodic memory in older adults.

Informal caregivers often seek additional support. Partner in Balance (PiB), a blended self-management program for informal caregivers of persons with dementia, presents a promising avenue for providing cost-effective support. This study aims to evaluate the cost-consequence of PiB compared to usual care.

Translation of the foundational REACH II intervention for caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) into practice has been limited. Most interventions generally focus on later-stage caregiving. The FL-REACH intervention was adapted from REACH II, addressing issues of implementation burden and shifting focus to prolonging in-home care through intervention delivered soon after diagnosis. Goals of this single-arm pilot study were to examine effectiveness of a six-session intervention delivered through an outpatient memory disorders clinic to caregivers of those diagnosed with mild to moderate stage memory disorders.

To identify and synthesize the evidence from longitudinal studies on predictors of clinical, functional, mental, and social variables of physical frailty incidence in older adults living in the community.

Older adults who continue to struggle with or wish to change their past decisions and experiences may experience existential regrets. Such regrets can lead to a weakening of social relationships and social withdrawal among older adults. This study aims to evaluate the relationships between existential regret and social efficacy and social outcome expectations among older adults.

LGBTQ+ people living with dementia are a heterogeneous group who are more likely to be socially isolated and may have unique social support structures. After lifetimes of personal, structural and systemic isolation, LGBTQ+ people living with dementia are less likely to seek formal support, particularly from heteronormative and cisgenderist aged care providers. With most people living with dementia relying on informal care, it is important for us to understand the distinct ways in which peer support may operate for socially isolated LGBTQ+ people living with dementia. This paper focusses on the experiences of LGBTQ+ peer supporters who visited LGBTQ+ people living with dementia as part of a formal program in Australia. In focus groups with peer supporters the arts-based method, body mapping, was used to support participants to describe their embodied experiences and needs when caring for and about an LGBTQ+ person living with dementia. The study highlighted that the peer supporters used strengths based, gender affirming approaches to support LGBTQ+ people living with dementia. In line with concepts drawn from ethics of care, these relationships value diversity and emerge from a deep moral commitment to caring for LGBTQ+ elders as an expression of mutual authenticity. Despite this commitment, volunteer visitors experienced grief, not only because the people they visited died, but also at their inability to change systems that did not serve the people they cared for.

This study aimed to examine the association between widowhood duration and cognitive function among Chinese older adults and to analyze the mediating effects of stress and social participation, with gender differences also explored.

Dementia care is underdeveloped in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), with limited specialist services. In Uganda's decentralized health system, Health Assistants supervise Lay Health Workers (LHWs), yet dementia care is not part of their remit. This study explored the feasibility of the WHO Lay Health Worker Dementia Care model with Internal Facilitation (WLDC+IF), in which Health Assistants support LHWs in delivering community-based dementia care.

From increased recognition that the death of a baby can have a negative impact on women's wellbeing, baby loss practices in the UK have evolved significantly over the last 40 years. Minimal research exists, however, on the impact of baby loss for women bereaved before or around this time. The present study aimed to explore older women's experiences of longer-ago baby loss.

Despite emerging evidence suggesting the importance of alleviating dementia fear in improving psychological wellbeing and effective coping strategies, a major barrier to the evaluation and management of dementia fear is the lack of a valid tool to measure it, especially among the Chinese ethnic group. This study aims to evaluate the validity and reliability of the Chinese version of the Fear of Alzheimer's Disease Scale (FADS).

This study explores nursing-home staff experiences with crisis admissions of persons with dementia and their impact.

A higher prevalence of cognitive frailty exists among geriatric residents in nursing homes that provide long-term residential care for older adults. However, research specifically focused on examining the effects of cognitive frailty on adverse outcomes among older adults residing in nursing homes remains limited.

In this study, we adapted, refined, and tested feasibility of a card sort-based prioritization tool, Connect for Caregivers (C4C), to foster action planning for social connectedness in lonely family caregivers of persons living with dementia (PLWD).

This cross-sectional study explored the differential impact of psychological and social factors on fear of falling (FoF) beyond the impact of biological factors. The authors hypothesized that self-reported depressive symptoms, income, and living arrangement would have a greater impact on FoF than a model including biological measures of current level of physical function controlling for, age, sex, race, and past falls history (Biological Model).

While various psychological factors increase Parkinson's disease (PD) risk, delirium's role remains unexplored. This study examined whether delirium is associated with PD incidence and identified potential modifying factors.

This study aims to analyze the relationship between the living alone period and social isolation among middle-aged and older adults and mortality, and to identify vulnerable groups considering individual characteristics.

This study investigated the concurrent and longitudinal dyadic associations of loneliness with sleep duration and quality between wives and husbands among retired couples over 10 years.

This study aimed to examine whether subjective cognitive decline and impermanence acceptance would moderate the effect of perceived stress on depressive symptoms among the elderly.

According to stereotype embodiment theory (SET), negative self-perceptions of aging (SPA) affect health across the lifespan. Research indicates that both positive and negative SPA are associated with various health outcomes, including cognitive function. SET postulates three pathways through which SPA can affect health: psychological, behavioral, and physiological. The behavioral pathway suggests that older adults with negative SPA are less likely to engage in a healthy lifestyle, viewing such efforts as futile. Although studies have explored the relationship between SPA and cognitive function, limited research has examined activities that may mediate this relationship. Volunteering and intergenerational activities are potential pathways, as past interventions have shown improvements in memory, attention, and cognitive function. This study investigated the associations of SPA, volunteering, intergenerational activities, and cognitive function, including volunteering and intergenerational activities as mediators in the SPA-cognition relationship, during a 4-year period.

Recent evidence suggests residential surrounding greenness may benefit cognitive functioning. Although benefits have been widely studied in children and young adults, research involving mature and older adults, especially studies using objective greenness measures and comprehensive cognitive assessments, remains limited and shows mixed results. This study examines the effect of residential surrounding greenness on global and domain-specific cognition (memory, attention, language, executive functions) in community-dwelling mature and older adults. Also, moderating factors (age, gender, and education) are investigated.

Studies have shown the importance of neighborhood factors, such as residential segregation and green space, in associations with older adult brain health. In this qualitative study, we examine older adults' perceptions of their neighborhood, with a particular focus on residential diversity and segregation.