Managing Time With Dementia: Effects of Time Assistive Products in People With Dementia

Summary

Sweden, like most countries, is undergoing population ageing. This is accompanied by an epidemiologic transition of equal importance, leading to a greater number of people than ever before affected by dementia. Dementia affects thinking, memory, behavior and ability to perform everyday activities, including daily time management. Time orientation and daily management has been shown to influence well-being in older people. There is evidence suggesting that time assistive products can have positive effects on the well-being of both primary users and informal care givers, but this is not sufficient to provide evidence-based guidance for effective interventions, nor to develop innovative and effective solutions.

In order to contribute to the development and use of affordable and appropriate innovative assistive products and services for older people with mild or moderate dementia, the purposes of this project are to investigate and model the relationship between the use of time assistive products by older people with dementia, their daily time management and their well-being, and to devise strategies for the acceptance and use of such products by older people with dementia and informal caregivers.

A mixed longitudinal approach will be used to attain the first purpose, while the second purpose will be accomplished by applying a qualitative method. Women and men aged 65 or older diagnosed with early or moderate dementia (n=74), and their significant others will be eligible for inclusion.

Cooperation with researchers in India and Japan will generate a set of core data, which allows for cross-cultural comparisons of factors related to daily time management and well-being. The three-year project started September 2017, the main study in September 2018.

This project can be expected to contribute important knowledge that can advance the effectiveness of cornerstone social policies such as support for ageing in place and healthy and active ageing, and the reduction of social exclusion of older people.

Conditions

• Dementia

Interventions

OTHER

Time assistive products

The decision on the specific time assistive product to be prescribed will be decided based on current knowledge and the personal goal of the PwD.

OTHER

Information brochure

The information brochure will provide information frequent problems about daily time management and suggest strategies to manage them.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Karolinska Institutet

  collaborator OTHER

• Dalarna University

  collaborator OTHER

• Manipal University

  collaborator OTHER

• National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities, Japan

  collaborator OTHER

• Uppsala University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Gunnel Janeslätt, PhD · Centre for Clinical Research Dalarna, Nissers väg 3, SE-791 82 Falun, Sweden

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

DOUBLE

Model

CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age

60 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2018-09-30

Primary Completion

2022-11-15

Completion

2022-12-31

Countries

• Sweden

Study Locations