Dementia
Conditions
Interventions
For a period of 12 weeks, a diabetic patient and his caregiver communicate with a doctor or nurse through the TV terephone for 30 minutes once a week. Intercommunication content are nursing-care consu
Sponsors
Department of Human Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Dementia patients are informed of the nature and purpose of the study before giving their voluntary consent to participate in the study. We select a subject who has TV terephone communication system at his home as an intervention group. Age-, HDS-R score-, MMSE score-, duration of the dementia-, matched control group carrys on being treated as an outpaint without TV telephone communication.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Not dementia, Difficulty in speaking
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE), HDS-R, Clinical dementia rating (CDR), Pines Burnout Scale, Zarit nursing-care burden scale, Philadelphia Geriatric Center(PGC) moral scale, Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) | — |
Countries
Japan
Outcome results
None listed