Dementia
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: People with dementia who are recently admitted to an institutional nursing care facility (max. 3 months) and their informa caregivers.
Group 2: People with dementia who live at home, receiv
Sponsors
Fundació Privada Clinic per la Recerca Biomedica, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona;
Gerontopole, University of Toulouse;
Lund University;
Maastricht University;
University of Manchester;
University of Turku;
University of Tartu;
Witten/Herdecke University;
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. A formal diagnosis of dementia as diagnosed by an expert assessment (i.e. physician, psychiatrist, neurologist, geriatrician or general practitioner depending on countries’ specific diagnostic procedures) and recorded in the medical record; 2. An MMSE score of 24 or below; 3. The presence of an informal caregiver who visits at least twice a month.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Patients < 65 years; 2. Patients wth a primary diagnosis of Korsakoff's disease or primary psychiatric diagnosis; 3. Patients whose informal caregiver cannot be identified.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. People with dementia: Quality of life and quality of care; 2. Informal caregivers: Quality of life and caregiver burden. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. People with dementia: Functional status, cognition, medication use, neuropsychiatric symptoms, comorbidity, use of services/resources; 2. Informal caregivers: Psychological wellbeing, positive and negative aspects of caregiving, experiences on quality of care. | — |
Contacts
Public ContactHilde Verbeek
Department of Health Services Research CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care Faculty of health Medicine and Life Sciences Maastricht University PO Box 616
Outcome results
None listed