Alzheimer'
Conditions
Interventions
For a period of 3 months, a nurse intervene in a dementia patient and his caregiver through the videophone for 10 minutes once a week. Intercommunication content are compliance check of adhesive skin
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, Zarit nursing-care burden scale, Philadelphia Geriatric Center (PGC) moral scale, Lawton instrumental activity of daily living scale (IADL scale), Hiratsuka compliance scale, Daily self administrational table for side effects, The evaluation form of IT's results for Alzheimer's patients, The questionnaire survey to the TV telephone, The questionnaire survey to lifestyle habit | — |
Countries
Japan
Outcome results
None listed