Development, execution, analysis and utilisation of a survey on long-term formal professional home care and institutional long term nursing care faculties in Europe.
Recruiting
- Conditions
- Dementia
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON22946
- Lead Sponsor
- Fundació Privada Clinic per la Recerca Biomedica, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona; Gerontopole, University of Toulouse;Lund University;Maastricht University;University of Manchester;University of Turku;University of Tartu;Witten/Herdecke University;
- Brief Summary
/A
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 2200
Inclusion Criteria
1. A formal diagnosis of dementia as diagnosed by an expert assessment (i.e. physician, psychiatrist, neurologist, geriatrician or general practitioner depending on countries’ specific diagnostic procedures) and recorded in the medical record;
2. An MMSE score of 24 or below;
Exclusion Criteria
1. Patients < 65 years;
2. Patients wth a primary diagnosis of Korsakoff's disease or primary psychiatric diagnosis;
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational non invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. People with dementia: Quality of life and quality of care;<br /><br>2. Informal caregivers: Quality of life and caregiver burden.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. People with dementia: Functional status, cognition, medication use, neuropsychiatric symptoms, comorbidity, use of services/resources;<br /><br>2. Informal caregivers: Psychological wellbeing, positive and negative aspects of caregiving, experiences on quality of care.