NCT03890796

Activity Scheduling for Older Adults With Dementia

Application of Activity Scheduling to Enhance Quality of Life for Older Adults With Dementia

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (estimated)
• Sponsor: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Months – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is to evaluate the results from an intervention designed to encourage older adults with dementia for their engagement in activities through their active participation of activity scheduling (AS).

Detailed description

The study compares two interventions by using a 12-week longitudinal randomized controlled trial. For the first 2 weeks, all participants receive the same health care education program. Then for the following 10 weeks, participants will be randomized to either one of the two following groups with different conditions. For the control group, participants receive ten session of dementia care education. For the experimental activity scheduling group, participants receive ten session of dementia care education, plus weekly activity scheduling (AS) practice that focus on pleasant event scheduling and improving communication.

Conditions

• Older Adults With Mild to Moderate Level of Dementia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Activity Scheduling	AS is strategy for behavioral activation that has also been used with success in people with dementia, after the training of their caregivers. A certified occupational therapist will train up the caregivers of dementia in conducting AS activities for participants in experimental group
BEHAVIORAL	Educational	A serial of dementia care education program with a weekly theme of topics like: importance of exercise and healthy eating, sleep management, counselling, acceptance therapy, commitment therapy, reminiscence therapy.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-01-21
• Primary completion: 2020-11-01
• Completion: 2020-11-01
• First posted: 2019-03-26
• Last updated: 2020-10-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Hong Kong