NCT04542109

REmote Assessment and Dynamic Response Intervention

READyR: A Remote Assessment and Dynamic Response Intervention to Support Couples in Planning for Changing Dementia Care Needs

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Oregon Health and Science University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 62 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of the READyR study (originally called SHARE-sense) is to redevelop and test an intervention program to remotely assess for changing dementia-related care needs.

Detailed description

Unmet dementia-related care needs are highly prevalent, and are detrimental to the care dyad's (person with dementia and their family care partner) health, safety, mortality, and likelihood of nursing home placement. The first phase of this study involves redevelopment of the intervention program into a 3-session values-based needs assessment intervention (delivered over 6 weeks) designed for early-stage persons with dementia and their primary family caregiver (i.e. spouse or partner). A secondary data analysis and focus groups will be conducted in order to complete the redevelopment phase. Objective digital data on behavioral patterns (from sensors and wearables) will be incorporated into a needs assessment that will allow for dynamic tailoring of the READyR program to new and unforeseen care needs. People who voluntarily decide to participate in this study will be asked to participate in three sessions: Session 1 for baseline assessments gathered from all participants (including remote in-home monitoring), Session 2 for discussing the participant's care values and their alignment with current patterns of activities (assessed by remote monitoring) in the home, and Session 3 for addressing current dementia related care needs and setting goals for the future. Participants who complete this study will be offered participation in a follow-up monitoring period to further study the possibilities for dynamic tailoring of their dementia-related needs assessment.

Conditions

• Dementia
• Alzheimer Disease
• Relationship, Marital
• Caregiver Stress Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	READyR A	Two active sessions to conduct an individually-tailored dementia-related needs assessment, incorporating the participant's care values and objective data from remote in-home monitoring.
BEHAVIORAL	READyR B	Active comparator. Two sessions to deliver general information about dementia-related care needs.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-04-27
• Primary completion: 2022-06-17
• Completion: 2022-06-17
• First posted: 2020-09-09
• Last updated: 2022-06-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States