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Collaboration Between Department of Old Age Psychiatry and Nursing Homes

NCT01217541 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 700

Last updated 2014-12-12

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Dementia is a serious health problem showing an increasing prevalence rate with increasing age. In Norway, about 80% of nursing home patients have dementia. The mean age of nursing home residents in Norway is around 84 years. Disruptive and agitated behaviour affect 30-50% of all individuals with dementia at some point in the course of the illness. In addition, they have a combination of physical and psychological diseases which necessitates a close collaboration between different specialities in medicine and Old Age psychiatry. In collaboration with the communalities, our Old Age psychiatry services want to provide a new approach to this challenge and validate it on patient and personnel level.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Education and Supervision

Implementation of Scales in the care of patients with dementia in nursing home units with focus on person-centred care. Supervision of caregivers on a regular basis.

OTHER

Control

A control group of nursing home units that do not get any form of active intervention

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Helse Sor-Ost

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Norwegian Department of Health and Social Affairs

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Sykehuset Innlandet HF

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Geir Selbæk, PhD · Sykehuset Innlandet HF

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-09-30
Primary Completion
2012-03-31
Completion
2012-03-31

Countries

  • Norway

Study Locations

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Diseases

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