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Acute Hospital Care at Home for People Living With Dementia

NCT06819852 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 200

Last updated 2026-03-17

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Summary

The investigators will perform a parallel-group multicenter randomized controlled trial of a 1-year pre-enrolled acute hospital care at home intervention vs usual care for people living with dementia. Patients will be randomized only after eligibility determination and after the family caregiver agrees to enroll; people living with dementia will assent when able. Patients will be allocated in a concealed fashion to the control and intervention groups in randomly selected block sizes of 4 or 6 in 4 strata reflecting their functional status (activities of daily living: 0, 1, 2-3, 4-6). Although family and clinicians cannot be blinded, the investigators will blind the data collectors and assessors.

Conditions

  • Emergency Department Visit
  • Home Care Services
  • Dementia

Interventions

OTHER

Acute hospital care at home

Home visit for a serious illness conversation. Acute illness evaluation on demand. Acute hospital care at home as needed.

OTHER

Standard medical treatment

Standard acute and emergency care delivered in a brick-and-mortar hospital setting.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)

    collaborator NIH

  • Brigham and Women's Hospital

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-04-30
Primary Completion
2028-05-31
Completion
2028-05-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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