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Volunteers Adding Life in Dementia: VALID

NCT01715181 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 75

Last updated 2017-04-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Older adults with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia frequently develop challenging neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) as a result of their illness. Non-pharmacological strategies to manage these symptoms such as music, exercise, and participating in pleasant social events have been demonstrated to be safe and effective strategies to reduce these behavioral symptoms. Our project, Volunteers Adding Life in Dementia (VALID), will design and implement a volunteer-led program to reduce behavioral symptoms and improve the quality of life of older adults with dementia who are residing in long-term care facilities.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Volunteer visits

Volunteers will visit 3 times per week with a visit duration of 30 minutes for each visit during the study.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Dallas P Seitz, MD · Queen's University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-01-31
Primary Completion
2015-06-30
Completion
2016-03-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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Read the full study record

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