Living Memory Home-4-Dementia Care Pairs

NCT ID: NCT06225986

Last Updated: 2025-06-06

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 70 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-11-06
• Study Completion Date: 2025-06-16

Brief 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

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

LMH-4-DCP Intervention

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

LMH-4-DCP

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

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.

Attention Control Arm

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

LMH-4-DCP access without reminiscence activities

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Participants in the attention control condition will have access to a version of LMH-4-DCP excluding reminiscence-specific activities.

Interventions

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.

Intervention Type: 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.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

Family Caregivers:

• be a primary source of care for a family member in the early to moderate stages of dementia
• 18 years of age or older
• English-speaking
• able to use the internet and has internet access
• residing in the United States

Exclusion Criteria

• is not the primary family caregiver of the PwD
• under the age of 18-years-old
• exhibits cognitive impairment (by scoring 3 or more on the SPMSQ)
• does not speak English as a primary language.

• severe cognitive impairment detected by the clinical or study staff using validated, brief screening tools (e.g., a score of 8 errors or more on the SPMSQ)
• does not demonstrate capacity to consent (e.g., a score of 9 or fewer errors on the University of California-San Diego Brief Assessment of Capacity to consent
• PwD is living in a long-term care facility
• does not speak English as a primary language
• is under the age of 18 years old.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

National Institute on Aging (NIA)

NIH

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Holly Prigerson, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Francesca Falzarano, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Southern California; Weill Cornell Medicine

Locations

Weill Cornell Medicine

New York, New York, United States

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

United States

Central Contacts

Sydney C Saviano, B.A.

Role: CONTACT

sys4002@med.cornell.edu

646-962-5637

Facility Contacts

Sydney C Saviano, B.A

Role: primary

sys4002@med.cornell.edu

Other Identifiers

R21AG077144

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

View Link

23-07026251

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id