Home Safety Clinical Trial for Alzheimer's Disease

Completed · Phase 1

Conditions studied: Alzheimer's Disease, Dementia

In brief

The purpose of this study was to test the effectiveness of a new multimodal educational intervention to improve home safety for persons with dementia of the Alzheimer's type and their home caregivers.

Key facts

Study ID: NCT00459355
Run by: US Department of Veterans Affairs
People needed: 254
Starts: 2007-07-01
Expected to finish: 2011-12-01
Last updated by the study team: 2015-04-28

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

Subjects are dyads of primary caregivers and persons with a progressive DAT who live in the community, are willing to have home visits for home safety education, and who read and speak English.
Inclusion criteria for care recipients are: diagnosis of DAT, score of 24 or less on the Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE), is expected to continue living in the community for the next 6 months, and has the ability to ambulate without help from the caregiver.
Inclusion criteria for the primary informal caregiver are: lives in the home with the care-recipient, provides a minimum of 4 hours of care-giving or supervision per day, and has no known cognitive impairment as judged by the primary care provider who refers the subject dyad for study recruitment.

You may not qualify if…

Care-recipient MMSE score of 25 or greater.
A previous home safety visit.
Admission to a long-term care facility. - Persons with DAT who are living alone will be excluded because their safety issues are more complex and there is no primary informal caregiver who can make consistent observations about risky behaviors and accidents.

Where it is running

Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, MA — Bedford, Massachusetts, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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