{"id":235687,"date":"2026-04-22T02:08:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/benefits-and-harms-of-dementia-screening-for-family-members-of-older-adults-a-randomized-clinical-trial"},"modified":"2026-04-22T02:08:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:08:47","slug":"benefits-and-harms-of-dementia-screening-for-family-members-of-older-adults-a-randomized-clinical-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/benefits-and-harms-of-dementia-screening-for-family-members-of-older-adults-a-randomized-clinical-trial","title":{"rendered":"Benefits and Harms of Dementia Screening for Family Members of Older Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/benefits-and-harms-of-dementia-screening-for-family-members-of-older-adults-a-randomized-clinical-trial.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alzheimer disease and related dementias screening of adults \u226565 years in primary care had no significant benefits or harms on family member quality of life or psychological well-being.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Question How does screening adults aged 65 years and older for dementia in primary care affect their family members\u2019 health-related quality of life, stress, and perceived readiness to provide care?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Findings<\/strong> In this randomized clinical trial that included 1808 patient-family member dyads, there was no significant difference in benefit of screening to family members, measured by physical and mental component summary scores, and no difference in harm, measured by depression and anxiety between the screen and no screen groups over time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meaning<\/strong> These findings suggest that screening older adults for dementia in primary care did not improve or worsen their family members\u2019 quality of life or psychological well-being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alzheimer disease and related dementias screening of adults \u226565 years in primary care had no significant benefits or harms on family member quality of life or psychological well-being. Question How does screening adults aged 65 years and older for dementia in primary care affect their family members\u2019 health-related quality of life, stress, and perceived readiness [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}