Primary Care-Aging Services Partnership in Dementia Care

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Alzheimer's Disease and related disorders; Neurological - Dementias; Public Health - Health service research

• Registration Number: ACTRN12611000214932
• Lead Sponsor: Philip Sloane, MD

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2011-02-28
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 300

Inclusion Criteria

Providers must be active primary care MDs (with Internal Medicine or Family Medicine specialties) who practice in the 4 targeted counties (Alamance, Guilford, Rockingham and Caswell, NC) and provide care for large numbers of community dwelling older persons.

Patients and their caregivers (both interviewed and studied through existing Medicare data only) will be included if the patient is community-dwelling with the caregiver at the time of data request, are diagnosed with dementia (using a list of diagnostics codes for dementia), and are active patients of enrolled physicians who have been seen in the office post-preceptorship. For the caregivers, they must have English as their primary spoken language

Exclusion Criteria

Non-English speaking caregivers will be excluded.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified