Effects and Costs of a Day Care Centre Program Designed for People With Dementia

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

261 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2013-08-01

Study Completion Date

2017-12-31

Brief Summary

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Attending day care centres with programs specifically designed for patients with dementia is believed to postpone admittance to nursing home as well as increase quality of life and well-being for both patients and their family caregivers. We aim to investigate to what degree attendance in day care centres with programs for people with dementia is effective for patient and their caregivers whilst also cost efficient for society. The study consists of a quasi-experimental trial with comparison group. 400 patients with dementia, along with a family caregiver, will be included in the trial. Effects will be measured at baseline, after one and two years. Data collection will be made at three levels; at patient level with measures of cognition, depression, quality of life, functioning in activities in daily living, neuropsychiatric symptoms and death; at caregiver level with measures of depression, level of burden and quality of life; and at societal level with measures of nursing home admittance, hospital stays and use of other health resources. Additionally,a qualitative interview study will include 20 dyads from the main trial. The main focus will be on how attending day care centre programs for patients with dementia affect the lives of both patients and caregivers. Five of these dyads will be followed closely throughout the participation period to be used as case examples.

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Detailed Description

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A quasi experimental trial with a comparison group will be performed to evaluate the effect of the day care centre programs by comparing results from municipalities with (intervention group) and without (comparison group) a day care centre program designed for people with dementia using standardized assessment tools. Furthermore, a survey will be used to explore the communication and co-operation between the professional staff at the day care centre, the patients and the family carers by administering questionnaires to all three parties. Only patients with mild degree of dementia will be asked to participate in the questionnaire. Finally, qualitative interviews will be made with 20 dyads of patients and family carers to collect their in depth experience with the day care centre program. Five of these patients and their family carers will be followed closely as case examples for two years.

Conditions

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Dementia

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Day care for patients with dementia

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Day care for patients with dementia

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Day care centres designed by the local authorities for patients with dementia

Care as usual

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Day care for patients with dementia

Day care centres designed by the local authorities for patients with dementia

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Age of 65 years or more and living at home
* Patients in the day care centre group must have attended the centre for at least four weeks and have been there no longer than nine months
* Dementia of either Alzheimer's type, vascular dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies/Parkinson's disease or a mixture of these types of dementias
* Capacity to give informed consent as judged by the professional caregivers
* A Mini Mental Status Examination (MMSE) score of ≥15
* Having a family carer willing to participate, who see the patients personally at least once a week
* Attending the day care centre program at least twice a week