View clinical trials related to Major Neurocognitive Disorder.
Filter by:The care pathways of people living with major neurocognitive disorders (MNCD) are often inadequate due to poor access to resources, long delays, and resources that are poorly adapted to expectations and needs. This situation was exacerbated during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic due to the reduction of available resources and care provider burnout. People living with MNCD are at risk of becoming more fragile, which can lead to emergency room visits and hospitalizations, and significantly alter the quality of life of the dyad (family caregiver and the person being cared for). Intervening earlier in the care pathway would make it possible to avoid the aggravation of pathologies associated with MNCD and hospitalizations. The reorganization of activities imposed by the social distancing measures due to the pandemic has shown that e-health is a solution to maintain access to resources for people living with chronic conditions such as MNCD. We have been working since the beginning of the pandemic on the development of two complementary health applications for seniors and their dyads: the self-assessment questionnaire on frailty (CARE©) and the Evaluation et orientation SOcio-GÉRiatrique (ESOGER©) questionnaire : - CARE© is made by the dyad, allowing to identify a state of frailty and the risks related to it. It relies on the active participation of the user and is deployed in the form of an application. - ESOGER© is a standardized hetero-questionnaire filled out remotely, during a telephone call, by a community organization worker with the user and/or his/her caregiver. It is a tool for first contact, listening and accompanying a user, which makes it possible to determine whether the needs for care and services are being met, to prioritize the needs, to trigger the implementation of care and services, and to make the link with the organizations providing care and services. The objectives of this study are to examine the effects of CARE© combined with ESOGER© on the state of physical and mental frailty, loss of autonomy, quality of life, and consumption of health services and care resources in people living with a major neurocognitive disorder (MNCD).
The main objective of this study is to adapt the Canadian French version of the safety assessment scale for use in France. The Safety Assessment Scale was developped for community healthcare providers working with elderly people with dementia who are being cared for at home, to assess the risk of accidents. The short version of the Safety Assessment Scale is a screening tool and the longer version provides an in-depth evaluation of safety. This scale is a risk assessment grid for accidents and injuries at home for elderly people with major neurocognitive disorders, available in English and French (Canadian). There are two versions: - The short version is used for screening. A score of 11 to 14 indicates a moderate risk of injury, while a score ≥ 15 indicates a high risk of injury; - The long version is used for in-depth assessment when the score on the short version indicates a moderate or high risk of injury. The questionnaire is divided into nine sections: 1. Caregiver and environment, 2/smoking, 3/fire and burns, 4/nutrition, 5/food poisoning and toxic substances, 6/medication and health problems, 7/wandering and adaptation to temperature changes, 8/trauma, and 9/driving. The short version includes some of the questions from sections 1 to 7 of the long version.
The model of care tested in the GPS project aims to optimize pharmacotherapy for seniors undergoing cognitive assessment or suffering from major neurocognitive disorder (MCND) at home. The goal is to reduce polymedication, inappropriate medications and the treatment burden of seniors and to maintain their cognitive health, quality of life and autonomy. The intervention will include knowledge exchange sessions with nurses, pharmacists, and doctors in FMGs, and increased collaboration between these professionals and home care services teams. Other goal is to increase the satisfaction of the seniors, their families, and the professionals involved in the GPS project.
The aim of this study is to investigate the usability of a newly designed and developed user-centered exergame in older adults with major neurocognitive disorder (dementia).
This study evaluates the feasibility of the intervention and the study design.
This randomized controlled trial explores the efficacy of an 8-week standing exergaming program in people with major neurocognitive disorder (MNCD) residing in long-term care facilities.
Alzheimer disease is the most common neurodegenerative brain disease that causes cognitive impairment in the elderly but also behavioral and psychological symptoms. Among these symptoms, agitation is one of the most dangerous because it put the patient and their caregivers in danger. Sleep disorders can be the cause of many psychiatric symptoms leading directly or indirectly to agitation. Music therapy is the non-drug therapy which has been shown to be the most effective in managing agitation and sleep disorders. With the MAGE protocol, the investigators propose to take care of behavioral disorders in severe Alzheimer patients living in nursing home through sequences of music therapy (stimulation, relaxation) automatically initiated by an actigraph that will detect sleep disorders. These subjects will be exposed for 2 weeks over a month. Behavioral and sleep disorders will be evaluated objectively by actigraphy but also by standardized scales, as the others neuropsychiatric symptoms found classically in this disease. Thanks to this project, the investigators hope to improve the quality of life of these patients by preventing them from putting themselves in danger, by reducing their neuropsychiatric symptoms and their use of medication, which has often deleterious side effect and also by reducing the workload of caregivers.