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Validation and Optimization of the Individual Benefits of Locating Systems in Dementia Care

NCT02893800 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2022-06-06

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Summary

The project aims to make new technologies for locating people with dementia easier to use for the patients and those caring for them.

Objective: To systematically understand what improves the user experience of persons with dementia (PwD) and their primary caregivers (CG) with locating system watches to ultimately allow users to obtain more benefits from using these watches.

Aim: Improving the user experience of PwD and CG with locating system watches using a cross-over design and a theory-based educational session approach.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

Locating system watch with GPS-technology

Patients using locating system watches with embedded global positioning system (GPS) technology and telephone function; Caregivers using a Smartphone with an installed application to see the current location of the patient and with the possibility to call the patient

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • German Alzheimer Society

    collaborator OTHER

  • Charite University, Berlin, Germany

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Oliver Peters, MD · Charité CBF

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-06-30
Primary Completion
2016-11-30
Completion
2016-11-30

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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Diseases

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