NCT07227558

Improving Information Sharing Between Family Caregivers and Home Care Aides

Improving Information Sharing Between Family Caregivers and Home Care Aides Caring for Persons Living With ADRD

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study will assess the feasibility and acceptability of delivering a home care role and preference guide to up to 50 family caregivers and home care aides of persons living with disability for the purpose of identifying roles between family caregivers and home care aides.

Detailed description

This study will assess the feasibility and acceptability of delivering a home care role and preference guide to family caregivers and home care aides of persons living with disability for the purpose of identifying roles between family caregivers and home care aides, as well as preliminary effects on older adult social engagement, caregiver distress, continuity, and feelings of being overwhelmed, family caregiver/direct care worker preparedness, relational coordination, and service satisfaction. The intervention will involve delivering the home care role and preference guide to up to 50 family caregiver-home care care aide dyads to demonstrate the feasibility of collecting primary endpoints relating to older adults' outcomes to be examined in a future ePCT as well as intervention acceptability. Information about family caregivers and home care aide perspectives will be collected at enrollment, 2- and 4-weeks of the intervention.

Conditions

• Shared Care

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	GRACE	GRACE- Guide for Role Awareness and Care Engagement is a role and preference guide designed to improve information sharing and clarify role expectations between family caregivers and home care aides of older adults. This guide will outline the various domains of providing care services and preferences for older adults such as daily routine and preferred activities. The intervention will be delivered in-person to the family caregiver and home care aide at the care recipient's home.

Timeline

• Start date: 2026-04-15
• Primary completion: 2027-02-28
• Completion: 2027-12-31
• First posted: 2025-11-12
• Last updated: 2026-03-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States