MINDER Health Management Study for Dementia: A study to refine and evaluate technologies in the home to monitor and manage the health of people with dementia
- Conditions
- DementiaMental and Behavioural Disorders
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Ongoing
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 230
Person with dementia:
1. Male or female 50 years of age and older at baseline with a confirmed diagnosis of dementia (any type) by specialist assessment
2. Willing and able to provide informed consent
3. Standard MMSE score at baseline interview over 12
4. Living in the community
5. Receiving 10 or more hours per week of home care
6. Have a live in or nominated carer
7. Have sufficient functional English to allow completion of the assessment instruments
8. If on anti-dementia medication (cholinesterase inhibitors and/or memantine), on a stable dose for three months prior to recruitment
Carers of people with dementia:
1. Willing and able to provide informed consent
2. Single nominated informal carer (relative/friend) who has known the person with dementia for at least 6 months and is able to attend research assessments with the person with dementia
3. Have sufficient functional English to allow completion of the assessment instruments
4. Aged 18 or over
Professional (including health care, technology professionals) sample:
1. Aged 18 or over
2. Involved in the delivery of care/data monitoring/technical delivery of IoT intervention of people with dementia
3. Willing to provide informed consent
People with dementia:
1. In a residential care home
2. Receipt of any investigational drug within 30 days prior to consenting
3. People with unstable mental state including severe depression, severe psychosis, agitation and anxiety whom their medication was change over the last 4 weeks
4. People with severe sensory impairment
5. Unable to communicate verbally
6. Currently have active suicidal ideas
7. People who require regular elective hospital admission for their physical health monitoring
8. People who are receiving treatment for terminal illness
Carers of people with dementia:
1. Unable to communicate verbally
Professionals:
Does not meet inclusion criteria
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <br> The composition of an optimised TIHM for Dementia System of Care solution based on:<br> 1. Direct cost: Data on service use and patterns of unpaid care and support provided by families and friends will be recorded by a modified version of the Client Service Receipt Inventory (CSRI). Costs will be attributed to service use using NHS reference costs and unit costs from the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU, www.pssru.ac.uk). This will be assessed at the baseline and after 3 and 6 months<br> 2. Service-use data, collected via a modified CSRI at the baseline and after 3 and 6 months<br> 3. System performance, captured in real-time through data captured by the system itself on alerts related to technical performance<br> 4. User-acceptability, assessed using an investigator designed tool developed based on the TAM at the baseline and after 3 and 6 months<br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method