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Safe & Easy for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Pathologies

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Cognitive Deterioration
Interventions
Other: Patient's answer with non pharmacological therapeutic
Registration Number
NCT02518243
Lead Sponsor
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice
Brief Summary

All over the world the increasing prevalence of chronic disorders and its impact on functional decline is challenging the sustainability of health care systems. Older individuals also frequently experience the reversible "frailty syndrome", which overlaps with chronic diseases, increasing incidence of disability.

Building a global system aiming to take in charge all causes leading to loss of autonomy is a rather complicated task involving numerous Information and Communication technologies (ICT) solutions which are not always easy to use in everyday life.

The SafEE (Safe Easy Environment) project aim is to improve the safety, autonomy and quality of life of older people at risk.

The SafEE2 project develop non pharmacological therapeutic through diferent ICT (stimulation aromatherapy automatic fragrance ...) .

The goal of this study is to validate the acceptability, sensitivity and efficacy of the systems.

Detailed Description

The non pharmacological therapeutic will be install at hospital room :

* aromatherapy,

* music therapy,

* cognitive training in multimedia application offering cognitive games.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
7
Inclusion Criteria
  • Subjects with a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease according to NINCDS-ADRDA (McKhann, Drachman et al. 1984) or typical or atypical Alzheimer's disease (Dubois B. et al. 2007).
  • Score at Mini Mental Test (MMSE) ≥16.
  • Subjects residing in nursing homes.
  • Subjects beneficiaries of a social security scheme.
  • Signature of free and informed consent.
Exclusion Criteria
  • Failure to pass the neuropsychological tests because of a sensory or motor deficit.
  • Sensory deficit (olfactory or visual) preventing the patient made perfectly meet the therapeutic solutions.
  • Prescription of a new treatment psychotropic (hypnotic, anxiolytic, antidepressant, antipsychotic) in the week before the evaluation;
  • Persons deprived of liberty (administrative or judicial).

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
SINGLE_GROUP
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Alzheimer's DiseasePatient's answer with non pharmacological therapeutic-
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Tolerance of the systems set up and use frequency evaluated using the Caregiver Questionnaire3 months
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Ehpad Valrose

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Nice, France

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