Human rights in dementia care

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Topic: Dementias and neurodegeneration; Subtopic: Dementia; Disease: Dementia; Mental and Behavioural Disorders

• Registration Number: ISRCTN94553028
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Liverpool

Brief Summary

2018 results in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29558082/ (added 17/12/2020)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2015-03-20
• Study Completion: 2015-08-31
• Last Update Posted: 5 January 2021

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 439

Inclusion Criteria

Inclusion criteria will be broad:
1. Clusters: All NHS sites involved in the study will be dementia-specific wards. Care homes may be included if caring for people with dementia is part of the facilities core business and they have enough residents with dementia to fulfil the needs of the study.
2. Individuals within clusters: the main inclusion criteria for individuals is a diagnosis of dementia. Issues such as age, severity of dementia, length of time at the setting will be recorded but are not regarded as inclusion/ exclusion criteria in themselves
3. Male & female
4. At least 18 years old

Exclusion Criteria

Individuals who do not have capacity to consent and have no Personal Consultee available to support them in this. There are no other formal Exclusion Criteria, although all participants (people with dementia, carers, staff) will be informed they can withdraw from the study at any stage: requests to withdraw will not be questioned and will be scrupulously honoured.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified