“…Control participants included informal caregivers of the AD patients [ 15 , 25 , 26 ], spouses [ 25 ], other relatives [ 4 , 39 ], community-based healthy elderly [ 4 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 19 , 24 , 25 , 29 , 30 , 35 , 38 , 39 ], non-demented patients from (neurological) hospitals [ 13 , 22 , 34 , 37 ], outpatient clinics [ 22 , 23 ], research centres [ 36 ], paid volunteers [ 20 ] or residents of a long-term care facility [ 12 , 33 ]. In some studies the control group was not specified [ 14 , 18 , 21 , 27 , 28 , 31 , 32 ].…”