NCT06635876

Caregivers Preparing for Their Own Health Care Emergency

Piloting an Online Emergency Preparedness Toolkit for Caregivers Preparing for Their Own Health Care Emergency

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 68 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of California, Davis · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The proposed research will develop and test an online Emergency Preparedness Toolkit to help caregivers prepare for their own unexpected health events. Caregivers of persons with dementia often ignore their own health needs as their primary focus is the care of the person with dementia. This can lead to a caregiver delaying their own care and subsequently emergent health events. The Emergency Preparedness Toolkit provides guidance to the caregiver as to how to identify and transfer care to a standby caregiver. The goal is to provide a caregiver with the security and comfort that the person with dementia will be well cared for while they care for their own health needs.

Conditions

• Dementia
• Caregiver Burden

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Coaching Sessions	The coach will use motivational interviewing techniques to: 1. To assist and guide the caregiver to establish a standby caregiver relationship 2. To assist and guide the caregiver as to how to use the EPT

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-07-18
• Primary completion: 2026-04-01
• Completion: 2026-07-01
• First posted: 2024-10-10
• Last updated: 2026-04-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States