Found 842 clinical trials
Dementia Family Caregiver Study
The proposed study will test a 3-month, community health worker (CHW) delivered home visit, culturally and language-appropriate intervention for ethnic and underserved dementia family caregivers of persons with dementia (PWD) using wearable technology for real time monitoring of caregivers' stress and sleep. The CHW delivered home visit intervention includes stress …
Personalized Obstructive Sleep Apnea Treatment and Effects on Alzheimer's Disease Biomarkers and Cognition Among Blacks
The purpose of this research is to see how effective the Personalized obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) Treatment Adherence Model called PRAISE is in helping the patient stick to the physician recommended OSA treatment plan Positive Airway Pressure (PAP).
Reducing African American's Alzheimer's Risk Through Exercise-Mild Cognitive Impairment (RAATE-MCI)
The RAATE-MCI proposal is designed to determine the effects of physical activity on risk factors for Alzheimer's Disease in older African American adults. The study will compare a physical activity program to an active control group. RAATE-MCI is a 52-week randomized controlled trial. 144 African American adults aged 60 and …
Safty and Efficacy of MCI Network Guided TMS for Early Alzheimer's Disease: A Randomized, Double-blind Trial
Estimate the safty and efficacy of personalized network neuronavigated transcranial magnetic stimulations in early Alzheimer's disease patients
Reduce Loneliness in Care Partners of Persons With AD/ADRD
More than 60% of care partners of persons with AD/ADRD report feeling lonely. Building on the existing evidence that increasing meaning and purpose in life is a strong predictor of decreased loneliness, interventions to reduce loneliness in this population may be strengthened by incorporating concepts from Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy (MCP). Thus, …
Intranasal Oxytocin Intervention for Caregivers to Persons With Dementia
More than 15 million family caregivers provide support for individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD) or related dementias. This number is expected to grow with the increasing population of persons with dementia (PWD). Stress in caregivers to older adults with chronic diseases is already a significant public health issue because it …
Support Via Technology: Living and Learning With Advancing Dementia-REVISED
STELLA-R is a multicomponent, self-directed, online intervention designed to facilitate effective management of behavioral and psychological symptoms that are common in many types of dementia. The curriculum instructs care partners to use the ABC approach, a cognitive behavioral technique that teaches care partners to describe a Behavior, then consider the …
Pilot Testing Dementia-Enhanced Training and Tool for Home Hospice Clinicians
The purpose of this study is to pilot test the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a clinically useful, inclusive dementia-enhanced training and tool for use by home hospice clinicians to improve care and support for Black and White patients with dementia and their family caregivers. The investigators expect family …
SAGE LEAF 2: An Online Program to Reduce Dementia Caregiver Burden
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if the SAGE LEAF (Social Augmentation of self-Guided Electronic delivery of the Life Enhancing Activities for Family caregivers) online positive emotion skill-building program delivered through Caregiver Serving Organizations can help family caregivers of individuals with dementia cope with stress. The main …
A Multimodal Music Therapy Intervention for Engaging Persons With Severe Dementia
The goal of this pilot randomized clinical trial is to learn if a music therapy treatment, called AMUSED, can improve engagement and reduce behavioral symptoms in older adults with severe dementia who live in care facilities. The main questions it aims to answer are: Is it feasible to conduct a …
