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Can Virtual Reality Reduce Depression and Agitation in Older Adults With Moderate to Severe Dementia?

NCT04347668 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 266

Last updated 2020-04-15

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Dementia is a term used to describe a collection of symptoms including memory loss, problems with reasoning and communication, and a reduction in a person's ability to carry out daily activities. The most common types of dementia are: Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, mixed dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies. Clinicians and families are looking for ways to deal with this challenging group of diseases to improve quality of life, reduce depression and agitation for individuals in long term care (LTC).

There are a variety of non-pharmacologic interventions for dementia often used in addressing physiological and behavioral challenges, new to this category of treatment is virtual reality (VR).

Virtual reality has been studied in mild cognitive impairment. Colleagues completed a systematic review of non-pharmacological intervention to treat older people with dementia and found music to be the only intervention effective, VR was not included as no studies were found.

The Registered Nurses Association of Ontario report non-pharmacological approaches are an important alternative to the use of antipsychotic medications. They recommend health-care providers should consider non-pharmacological interventions wherever possible as a first-line approach to the management of BPSD.

Virtual reality as proposed in this research will include music, library items will be selected that are person specific, and will provide sensory stimulation. To date there is no published research on the use the VR in moderate to severe dementia in LTC, looking at depression.

Conditions

  • Moderate Dementia
  • Severe Dementia

Interventions

OTHER

Virtual Reality

VR requires the user to use a multi-projected in their own room using BroomX to generate realistic images, sounds and other sensations that simulate a user's physical presence in a virtual or imaginary environment

OTHER

Usual Care

meals, engagement in scheduled and non-scheduled programs such as exercise, and activities, groups. Residents are supported in their activities of daily living, and social engagement. Specific interventions based on resident needs are supported in a Dementia capable environment.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Western University, Canada

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Max Age
110 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-04-01
Primary Completion
2020-05-01
Completion
2020-09-27

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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