No registrations found.
ID
Source
Brief title
Health condition
Dementia
Sponsors and support
Gerontopole, University of Toulouse;
Lund University;
Maastricht University;
University of Manchester;
University of Turku;
University of Tartu;
Witten/Herdecke University;
Intervention
Outcome measures
Primary outcome
1. People with dementia: Quality of life and quality of care;
2. Informal caregivers: Quality of life and caregiver burden.
Secondary outcome
1. People with dementia: Functional status, cognition, medication use, neuropsychiatric symptoms, comorbidity, use of services/resources;
2. Informal caregivers: Psychological wellbeing, positive and negative aspects of caregiving, experiences on quality of care.
Background summary
N/A
Study objective
N/A
Study design
Baseline assessment and follow-up after three months.
Intervention
Group 1: People with dementia who are recently admitted to an institutional nursing care facility (max. 3 months) and their informa caregivers.
Group 2: People with dementia who live at home, receive professional home care and who are at risk for institutionalisation and their informal caregivers.
CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care<br>
Faculty of health Medicine and Life Sciences<br>
Maastricht University<br>
PO Box 616
Hilde Verbeek
Maastricht 6200 MD
The Netherlands
h.verbeek@maastrichtuniversity.nl
CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care<br>
Faculty of health Medicine and Life Sciences<br>
Maastricht University<br>
PO Box 616
Hilde Verbeek
Maastricht 6200 MD
The Netherlands
h.verbeek@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Inclusion criteria
1. A formal diagnosis of dementia as diagnosed by an expert assessment (i.e. physician, psychiatrist, neurologist, geriatrician or general practitioner depending on countries’ specific diagnostic procedures) and recorded in the medical record;
2. An MMSE score of 24 or below;
3. The presence of an informal caregiver who visits at least twice a month.
Exclusion criteria
1. Patients < 65 years;
2. Patients wth a primary diagnosis of Korsakoff's disease or primary psychiatric diagnosis;
3. Patients whose informal caregiver cannot be identified.
Design
Recruitment
Followed up by the following (possibly more current) registration
No registrations found.
Other (possibly less up-to-date) registrations in this register
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In other registers
| Register | ID |
|---|---|
| NTR-new | NL3065 |
| NTR-old | NTR3213 |
| Other | European Commision, Seventh Framework Programme : 242153 |
| ISRCTN | ISRCTN wordt niet meer aangevraagd. |