Alzheimer Disease
Conditions
Brief summary
One of the interests of the Alzheimer Plan 2008-2010 is to provide increase support to helping families. It's also of major to involve the patient in the most active treatment possible, encouraging social inter relationship as well as cognitive and behavioural stimulation activities. In the frame of non drug related approaches to Alzheimer disease (AD), several research projects and actions have already been conducted, but no specific study concerning the efficiency of different types of respite care structures have been conducted so far in France. The present project concerns the thematic of the frame Development and diversification of respite care structures. A platform is defined in the Alzheimer Plan as a diversified range of despite structures according to patients' needs and informal caregivers' expectations providing several objectives: Two objectives targeting the informal caregivers: * offer spare time or tutored * inform, support and accompany Two objectives targeting the patients: * encourage maintain of the patient social life and relationships and work together towards his/her psychological and emotional well-being * contribute to improve functional cognitive and sensory capacities The study COMPARSE suggests to compare for the patient - informal caregiver couple, the impact of three different groups of patient care on health profit; resit platform (P), the day care group (D), the control group without access to a respite structure (C).
Interventions
BEHAVIORALrespite platform
Impact of the respite platform patient care on health profit
BEHAVIORALDay care
Impact of the day care on health profit of patient
BEHAVIORALNo access to a respite structure
Control group without access to a respite structure
Sponsors
Department of Clinical Research and Innovation
Study design
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* patient affect by Alzheimer disease or related pathology * patient with an informal caregiver * patient not using any respite structure * signed informed consent (patient and informal caregiver) * affiliate to social security
Exclusion criteria
* patient without informal caregiver * patient include in another clinical protocol
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Analysis of the perceived and diagnosed health evolution of the patient | at baseline, one month and nine month | Realize neuropsychological evaluation and satisfaction degree evaluation of the patient and the informal caregiver to compare different types of respite care structures |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Efficacity of the different structures | at baseline, one month and nine month | Assess autonomy level of patient Realize sociological qualitative analysis and economic evaluation by comparing differents structures |
Countries
France
Outcome results
None listed