NCT03397667

The Aging Brain ANSWERS Program

The Aging Brain ANSWERS Program: Veterans Living With Alzheimer's and Traumatic Brain Injury and Caregiver Burden

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 236 (actual)
• Sponsor: Indiana University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study will test the effectiveness of an intervention for Veterans diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) or Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and the burden on their informal (family/friend) caregiver.

Detailed description

The majority of people with Alzheimer's (AD) and Traumatic brain Injury (TBI) are cared for in primary care settings and receive significant amounts of care and assistance in activities of daily living from family members or friends. The ABC ANSWERS intervention will incorporate and integrate the common features of an evidence-based collaborative care model for brain care, while also attending to the implementation barriers of delivering care and skills to dyads of patients with AD and TBI and their family caregivers. The study team will conduct a 1-year randomized control trial (RCT) designed to improve the Quality of Life (QoL) of Veterans with AD and TBI, and their family caregivers, and decrease their family caregivers' burden. The dyads in the intervention group will receive primary care plus ABC ANSWERS. The control group will receive primary care.

Conditions

• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Alzheimer Disease
• Veterans
• Family Caregivers
• Caregiver Burden
• Quality of Life

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	ABC ANSWERS	Primary Care plus ABC ANSWERS
OTHER	Control	Primary Care as usual

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-08-01
• Primary completion: 2023-05-31
• Completion: 2023-05-31
• First posted: 2018-01-12
• Last updated: 2025-12-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States