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Effects and Costs of a Day Care Centre Program Designed for People With Dementia

NCT01943071 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 261

Last updated 2020-02-10

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Summary

Attending day care centres with programs specifically designed for patients with dementia is believed to postpone admittance to nursing home as well as increase quality of life and well-being for both patients and their family caregivers. We aim to investigate to what degree attendance in day care centres with programs for people with dementia is effective for patient and their caregivers whilst also cost efficient for society. The study consists of a quasi-experimental trial with comparison group. 400 patients with dementia, along with a family caregiver, will be included in the trial. Effects will be measured at baseline, after one and two years. Data collection will be made at three levels; at patient level with measures of cognition, depression, quality of life, functioning in activities in daily living, neuropsychiatric symptoms and death; at caregiver level with measures of depression, level of burden and quality of life; and at societal level with measures of nursing home admittance, hospital stays and use of other health resources. Additionally,a qualitative interview study will include 20 dyads from the main trial. The main focus will be on how attending day care centre programs for patients with dementia affect the lives of both patients and caregivers. Five of these dyads will be followed closely throughout the participation period to be used as case examples.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Day care for patients with dementia

Day care centres designed by the local authorities for patients with dementia

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Research Council of Norway

    collaborator OTHER

  • Norwegian Centre for Ageing and Health

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Knut Engedal, Professor · Norwegian Centre for Ageling and health

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-08-01
Primary Completion
2017-12-01
Completion
2017-12-31

Countries

  • Norway

Study Locations

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