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A Family-centered Intervention for Acutely-ill Persons With Dementia

NCT03046121 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 461

Last updated 2024-06-06

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Summary

This study will address the effectiveness of Family-centered Function Focused Care (Fam-FFC). Fam-FFC is a theoretically-based approach to care in which family caregivers partner with nurses to prevent functional decline and other complications related to hospitalization in older adults with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. A systematic care pathway promotes information-sharing and decision-making that promotes physical activity, function, and cognitive stimulation during the hospitalization and immediate post-acute period. Our goal in this work is to establish a practical and effective way to optimize function and physical activity; decrease neuropsychiatric symptoms, delirium, and depression; prevent avoidable post-acute care dependency; and prevent unnecessary rehospitalizations and long-stay nursing home admissions, while mitigating family caregiver strain and burden.

Conditions

  • Alzheimer Disease

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Family-centered Function-focused Care (Fam-FFC)

An educational empowerment model for family CGs that includes a care pathway, provided within a social-ecological in-patient framework promoting specialized care to patients with ADRD. The intervention creates an "enabling" milieu for the person with ADRD through environmental and policy assessment/modification, staff education, unit-based champions, and individualized goal setting that focuses on functional recovery during hospitalization and the immediate post-acute period.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)

    collaborator NIH

  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)

    collaborator NIH

  • Penn State University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Marie Boltz, PhD · Penn State University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-11-06
Primary Completion
2022-02-28
Completion
2023-12-23

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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