NCT06225986

Living Memory Home-4-Dementia Care Pairs

The Living Memory Home: Reducing Grief and Improving Relationships Between Home-Based Patients With ADRD and Their Family Caregivers

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 74 (actual)
• Sponsor: Weill Medical College of Cornell University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate an online platform -- the Living Memory Home for Dementia Care Pairs (LMH-4-DCP) for persons with dementia and their family caregivers to engage in reminiscence activities together and record meaningful memories. The main aims of this study are: * To evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of the LMH-4-DCP platform. * To explore the potential for LMH-4-DCP to reduce feelings of pre-loss grief and enhancing relationship quality in dementia family caregivers and their care-recipients ('Care-Pairs') Care pair participants will be asked to log-in to LMH-4-DCP and complete study activities three times per week for two weeks. Researchers will compare the intervention group to an attention control condition to see if LMH-4-DCP's use is associated with reduced feelings of caregiver pre-loss grief and improved care pair relationship quality at follow-up.

Detailed description

The goal of this randomized controlled trial is to evaluate the Living Memory Home for Dementia Care Pairs (LMH-4-DCP) web application, a dyadic online psychosocial reminiscence platform, to reduce feelings of pre-loss grief and improve relationship quality in individuals with dementia and their family caregivers ('Care Pairs'). The main aims of this study are: * To evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of the LMH-4-DCP platform. * To explore the influence of the LMH-4-DCP intervention on reducing feelings of pre-loss grief and enhancing relationship quality in the care pair Caregiver participants randomized to the intervention condition will be asked to log-in to LMH-4-DCP and complete reminiscence activities three times per week for two weeks. Researchers will compare the intervention group to an attention control condition, which includes LMH-4-DCP use without reminiscence-specific features, to see if LMH-4-DCP's use is associated with reduced feelings of caregiver pre-loss grief and improved care pair relationship quality at follow-up.

Conditions

• Dyadic Family Caregiver-person With Dementia Online Intervention

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	LMH-4-DCP	Reminiscence-based intervention for family caregiver-Persons with Dementia (PwD) dyads to record and reflect on meaningful memories to address family caregivers' pre-loss grief and enhance relationship quality.
BEHAVIORAL	LMH-4-DCP access without reminiscence activities	Participants in the attention control condition will have access to a version of LMH-4-DCP excluding reminiscence-specific activities.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-11-06
• Primary completion: 2025-08-20
• Completion: 2025-08-20
• First posted: 2024-01-26
• Last updated: 2026-04-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States