NCT01267682

Cognitive Intervention For Delirium in Dementia

Reserve For Delirium Superimposed On Dementia (DSD)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 283 (actual)
• Sponsor: Penn State University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to test the effectiveness of cognitively stimulating activities for resolving delirium in people with dementia.

Detailed description

The primary aim in this RCT is to test the efficacy of Recreational Stimulation for Elders as a Vehicle to resolve DSD (RESERVE- DSD). The investigators will randomize 256 subjects, newly admitted to post acute care, to intervention (RESERVE-DSD) or control (usual care). Intervention subjects will receive 30-minute sessions of tailored cognitively stimulating recreational activities for up to 30 days. The investigators hypothesize that subjects who receive RESERVE-DSD will have: decreased severity and duration of delirium; greater gains in attention, orientation, memory, abstract thinking, and executive functioning; and greater gains in physical function compared to subjects with DSD who receive usual care. The investigators will also evaluate potential moderators of intervention efficacy (lifetime of complex mental activities and APOE status). The secondary aim is to describe the costs associated with RESERVE-DSD.

Conditions

• Delirium
• Dementia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Cognitive Stimulation	Thirty minutes of cognitive stimulation delivered daily for thirty minutes.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-01-01
• Primary completion: 2016-01-01
• Completion: 2016-03-01
• First posted: 2010-12-28
• Last updated: 2016-09-27

Locations

9 sites across 1 country: United States