View clinical trials related to Dementia.
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Photozig and Stanford University are creating a new program for Hispanic dementia caregivers to help cope with caregiving, alleviate related stress, and enhance quality of life for caregivers, with funding from the National Institute on Aging. The program includes a new education online telenovela (Webnovela), online resources, handouts and a DVD (for users without Internet) on how to deal with caregiving stress and handle difficult situations.
This clinical trial will test the FamTechCare intervention that uses multidisciplinary professional guidance based on in-home video monitoring to support family caregivers in managing challenging behaviors of persons with dementia (PWD). Families provide the majority of care for PWD at home. However the stress of caregiving is so significant that it increases caregiver morbidity and mortality. Stress is magnified by disruptive behaviors in PWD that frequently lead to nursing home placement. In-home video monitoring allows experts to assess behaviors of PWD and to identify antecedents, recommend specific interventions. FamTechCare uses new technology to link family caregivers to experts for guidance in managing disruptive behaviors, supporting continued care at home while reducing the negative effects of caregiving. Caregiver-PWD dyads (N=88) will be randomly assigned to intervention or control groups. Both groups will record behaviors during daily care for 3 months using a home monitoring unit. Notably, this new technology captures 3-5 minutes prior to the behavior, thus recording behavior triggers and precursors. Caregivers record care situations they select and upload videos to a secure site. The expert team will review intervention group videos weekly and will provide individualized feedback for improving care to caregivers in the home. The control group caregivers will receive a weekly phone call and advice from a nurse, but their recorded videos will be held for review and individualized feedback provided after 3 months. Study aims are to use observation to assist caregivers in behavior management. Effects on disruptive behaviors and caregiver burden and other negative outcomes will be compared. Investigators will evaluate ease of use and satisfaction, cost-efficiency, and factors influencing likelihood of translation into practice. This is the first study to test new technology for direct observation and immediate feedback to empower families to manage PWD behaviors at home while reducing caregiver stress and morbidity. Technology links caregivers to individualized expert guidance, acknowledging the importance and burden of their role. This study addresses NIH missions and the 2012 National Plan to Address Alzheimer's disease goals, integrating strategies to promote adoption and use of aging services technologies in interventions that will reduce negative caregiver outcomes, a growing public health problem.
Telemedicine may facilitate adequate treatment of Neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) by identifying underlying causes and tailoring a treatment plan (pharmacological or non-pharmacologic treatments including provision of staff education and support, training in problem solving, and targeted therapy directed at the underlying causes for specific behaviors).
This study will perform a retrospective analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of a multicomponent educational intervention to improve medication use and management of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia, relative to a statewide intervention that has been ongoing. Medication use and symptom severity outcomes will be compared among intervention counties and demographically similar non-intervention counties.
This ongoing study aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Tianzhi granule in mild to moderate vascular dementia in a more reasonable design.
To investigate long term safety (especially about Parkinsonism) and efficacy of donepezil hydrochloride in clinical practice as well as its proper use information in participants with DLB.
This is a cluster randomised controlled trial composed of two research arms: exercise training group (experimental group) and a social activity group (control group).
Participants with agitation secondary to dementia of the Alzheimer's type. The diagnosis of probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) will be based on the "2011 Diagnostic Guidelines for Alzheimer's Disease" issued by the National Institute on Aging (NIA)-Alzheimer's Association (AA) workgroups.
Participants with agitation secondary to dementia of the Alzheimer's type. The diagnosis of probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) was to be based on the "2011 Diagnostic Guidelines for Alzheimer's Disease" issued by the National Institute on Aging (NIA)-Alzheimer's Association (AA) workgroups.