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CARES Addiction Risk Screening: 15-Stakeholder Preprint

by GLOOM

MHD featured image for CARES addiction risk screening implementation.

A 2026 medRxiv preprint interviewed 15 health-system stakeholders about CARES, a freestanding addiction-risk screening platform, and found a clear implementation split: people wanted better substance-use prevention tools than current clinic screening, but provider burden, stigma, knowledge gaps, and medical-record liability could block uptake.1 Research Highlights Stakeholders saw a screening gap: all 15 interviewees held leadership …

AD8 Dementia Screening in Chinese-Speaking Older Adults

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Photoreal illustration of older adult with informant during screening interview, conveying culturally-aligned dementia screening.

Brief screening tools for early dementia risk are essential in primary care. A 2026 study by You et al. evaluated the AD8 informant questionnaire in older Chinese-speaking adults in Australia, mapping how cognitive, functional, social, and language-barrier risks stack before dementia is formally diagnosed.1 Research Highlights The AD8 dementia screening interview is an 8-item informant-based …