Home-based Family Caregiver-delivered Music and Reading Interventions for People With Dementia

Launched by ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY · Apr 5, 2019

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ClinConnect Summary

This three-arm parallel-group randomised controlled trial will involve 495 couples (cohabiting caregivers and people with dementia) across 5 countries. Caregivers allocated to the music or reading intervention groups will be given three 2-hour training sessions in the allocated intervention. They will be asked to deliver the intervention to the person they are caring for 5x weekly for 3 months. Data will be collected prior to implementing the intervention, during the intervention (via diaries kept by the caregivers), after the last week of implementing the intervention and 3-months after im...

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ALL

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Dyads (cohabiting) who are close in relationship and where one member has a diagnosis of dementia according to ICD-10 criteria (Alzheimer's Disease \[AD\], Frontotemporal Dementia, Vascular Dementia \[VD\], Lewy Body Disease, or mixed dementia) as determined by a clinician experienced in diagnosing dementia. Close in relationship refers to a caregiver who may be a sibling, spouse, adult child, friend, niece or nephew or any person who has a close relationship to the person with dementia, that is, anyone who is not a formal paid caregiver.
• • Dyads where the person with dementia has a Neuropsychiatric Inventory-Questionnaire (NPI-Q) Score of ≥6 (from a maximum score of 36)
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Dyads where either or both the caregiver or person with dementia have significant hearing impairments that are not resolved through the use of a hearing aid device and limit their capacity to enjoy musical experiences
• • There will be no further exclusions