The PorchLight Project

Alzheimer Disease Clinical Trial

Official title: The PorchLight Project

Status Active, not recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

The proposed project is a fully embedded pragmatic trial (R01), following an R61 pilot collaboration with Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota (LSS-MN).

For this project: a) the training program for Senior Companions that was developed in the R61 Phase will now be delivered as part of a routine onboarding process provided by LSS-MN to all senior support volunteers in half of their program regions across Minnesota; LSS-MN will offer the PorchLight Project program to all regions and volunteers in the state during the final months of the proposed NIA project, consistent with quality improvement approaches; and b) LSS-MN will administer regular surveys to volunteers, clients, and their proxies (e.g., family caregivers) as part of ongoing tracking and quality improvement efforts.

The University of Minnesota investigators will not collect data nor administer training, as these activities will be fully integrated into the workflow of LSS-MN.

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA INVOLVEMENT:

The University of Minnesota and collaborating investigators outside of LSS-MN will only 1) assist in survey item selection, 2) randomize the LSS-MN regions for the initial phases of the real-world trial for evaluation purposes, 3) analyze the de-identified data shared by LSS-MN, and 4) disseminate the project results in scientific, practice, and policy outlets/contexts.

Clinical Trial Description

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Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Alzheimer Disease
• Dementia
• Memory Disorders
• Memory Loss

• NCT number: NCT05550727
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: University of Minnesota
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 23, 2022
• Completion date: June 30, 2026