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ReviewDementia & neuropsychologia2026

Non-pharmacological strategies for the management of Alzheimer's disease.

Gunaro Lucas Dos Santos de Oliveira, Amanda Gollo Bertollo

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Review in Dementia & neuropsychologia, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Gunaro Lucas Dos Santos de OliveiraUniversidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Departamento de Farmacologia, Florianópolis SC, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0006-3723-8401
Amanda Gollo BertolloUniversidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Departamento de Farmacologia, Florianópolis SC, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0160-4079

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a multifactorial neurodegenerative disease affecting various cognitive domains, requiring a holistic and integrated therapeutic approach. The treatment of AD goes beyond pharmacological interventions, also necessitating non-pharmacological therapies that can act synergistically, both with each other and with emerging pharmacological treatments, including new anti-amyloid therapies. These therapies aim to improve patients' quality of life and alleviate behavioral symptoms, such as agitation and depression, and delay disease progression. Current clinical and meta-analytic evidence suggests that these approaches can be effectively integrated with conventional treatment, offering a valuable alternative to enhance patients' overall well-being. However, further research is needed to deepen the understanding of the ideal combination of the new anti-amyloid therapies, to address the limitations of current evidence, and to robustly establish their effectiveness in the clinical context of AD, aiming to generate a broader and more lasting impact on disease treatment. This narrative review aims to synthesize the evidence on diverse non-pharmacological therapies for managing AD and discuss their practical implications for clinical care.

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Alzheimer DiseaseComplementary TherapiesDementiaQuality of LifeTherapeutics

Identifiers

PMID42631306
PMCPMC13498258

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