NCT01217541

Collaboration Between Department of Old Age Psychiatry and Nursing Homes

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 700 (actual)
• Sponsor: Sykehuset Innlandet HF · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Dementia is a serious health problem showing an increasing prevalence rate with increasing age. In Norway, about 80% of nursing home patients have dementia. The mean age of nursing home residents in Norway is around 84 years. Disruptive and agitated behaviour affect 30-50% of all individuals with dementia at some point in the course of the illness. In addition, they have a combination of physical and psychological diseases which necessitates a close collaboration between different specialities in medicine and Old Age psychiatry. In collaboration with the communalities, our Old Age psychiatry services want to provide a new approach to this challenge and validate it on patient and personnel level.

Conditions

• Dementia
• Alzheimer's Disease
• Behavioral Symptoms
• Agitation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Education and Supervision	Implementation of Scales in the care of patients with dementia in nursing home units with focus on person-centred care. Supervision of caregivers on a regular basis.
OTHER	Control	A control group of nursing home units that do not get any form of active intervention

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-09-01
• Primary completion: 2012-03-01
• Completion: 2012-03-01
• First posted: 2010-10-08
• Last updated: 2014-12-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway