Coordinating Center for Enhancing ADRD Caregiving

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Dementia, Alzheimer Disease

In brief

Established in 1995, Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer's Caregiver Health (REACH) is a unique, multi-site research program sponsored by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the National Institute on Nursing Research (NINR). The primary purpose of REACH is to carry out social and behavioral research on interventions designed to enhance family caregiving for Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. Specifically, REACH has two goals: to test the effectiveness of multiple different interventions and to evaluate the pooled effect of REACH interventions overall. REACH grew out of a National Institute of Health (NIH) initiative that acknowledged the well-documented burdens associated with family caregiving as well as the existence of promising family caregiver interventions reported in the literature.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00178165

Run by

University of Pittsburgh

People needed

1200

Starts

1996-09-01

Expected to finish

2001-11-01

Last updated by the study team

2005-09-15

Who can join

Age: 21 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• NINCDS -ADRDA Criteria for Alzheimer's Disease and/or DSM IV Criteria for Alzheimer's Disease or other dementia or MMSE score < 23.
• Functional impairment: presence of two IADL or one ADL impairments.

You may not qualify if…

• Any terminal illness with life expectancy < 6 months
• Active treatment (chemotherapy, radiation therapy) for cancer
• More than three acute medical hospitalizations in past year (not for psychiatric or Alzheimer's Disease related admission)
• Schizophrenia (onset of delusions before age 45)
• Dementia secondary to head trauma (probable)
• Blindness or deafness if either disability prohibits them from completion of data collection or participation in the interventions
• MMSE = 0 and bedbound (confined to a bed or chair for > 22 hours per day, for at least 4 of the past 7 days)
• Planned nursing home admission in 6 months
• CORE CAREGIVER INCLUSION/EXCLUSION CRITERIA
• Inclusion criteria:
• Age: 21 years and older
• Language: site specific, must be competent either orally or written
• Lives with care recipient
• Family member
• Gender: Palo Alto/Los Angeles will only enroll women. All other sites will enroll men and women
• Must have a telephone
• At enrollment, plan to remain in area for the duration of the intervention and follow-up
• Caregiver role of at least 6 months
• Provides > 4 hours of supervision or direct assistance per day for the care recipient
• Exclusion criteria:
• Any terminal illness with life expectancy < 6 months
• Active treatment (chemotherapy, radiation therapy) for cancer
• More than three acute medical hospitalizations in past year
• Involved in another clinical trial of interventions for caregivers (non drug study)
• Second Level Review If the caregiver has been inconsistent with answers or repeated answers, then the interviewer will administer the SPMSQ. The interviewer will then discuss with the PI and coordinate another phone call with the caregiver.

Where it is running

• University of Alabama at Birmingham — Birmingham, Alabama, United States
• Stanford University and Veterans Affairs — Menlo Park, California, United States
• University of Miami at Miami, Center on Adult Development and Aging — Miami, Florida, United States
• Thomas Jefferson University at Philadelphia, Center for Applied Research on Aging and Health — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• University of Tennessee Health Science Center — Memphis, Tennessee, United States

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