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Dementia Symptom Management at Home Program

NCT03255967 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 217

Last updated 2024-01-30

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Summary

Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders (dementia) poses a significant challenge to our public health. While many persons with dementia are cared for by friends and family in the community with the assistance of home healthcare, most home healthcare clinicians and agencies are ill prepared to care for this population and therefore have difficulty assisting patients and caregivers in maintaining quality of life leading to adverse patient outcomes, increased caregiver stress and burnout, and healthcare utilization. This study will therefore utilize a cluster randomized controlled design at 3 study sites to examine the ability of a multi-component evidence-based practice primary palliative care quality improvement program for home healthcare registered nurses, occupational therapists and physical therapists to improve the quality of life and reduce healthcare utilization for persons with dementia and their informal caregiver.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

DSM-H

Multi-modal quality improvement program for improving the quality of care provided to person with dementia (PWD)-informal caregiver dyads through HHC

BEHAVIORAL

Standard of Care

Subjects receive care through usual home healthcare assignment process.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Abraham Brody, MD · NYU Langone Health

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-08-16
Primary Completion
2022-03-31
Completion
2022-05-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

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