Enhancing medicines organisation with people with dementia and family carers

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Dementias and neurodegeneration; Mental and Behavioural Disorders

• Registration Number: ISRCTN15712227
• Lead Sponsor: Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2023-05-12
• Last Update Posted: 22 May 2023
• Study Completion: 2025-03-29

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Ongoing
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 117

Inclusion Criteria

Participants will be people with dementia, family carers, and health and social care professionals.
People with dementia will be:
1. Living with mild-moderate dementia (as indicated by a Mini-Mental State Examination) score between 24 and 10).
2. Using two or more medicines
3. Living at home
4. Living alone or living with family carers

Family carers will be:
1. Relatives, friends or neighbours identified as involved in supporting the person with their medicines
2. Caring for a person with mild-moderate dementia (as indicated by a Mini-Mental State Examination) score between 24 and 10), using two or more medicines, and living at home
3. Maybe living within or outside the household of the person with dementia

Health and social care professionals will be:
Community health and social care professionals who are supporting a person with dementia and family carers with medicines in the home environment.

Exclusion Criteria

People with dementia will be excluded if they are any of the following:
1. Using fewer than two medicines
2. Living in care homes
3. Live with moderate to advanced dementia
4. Lack capacity to consent
5. On the End-of-Life Pathway
6. Unable to communicate verbally

Family carers will be excluded if they are either of the following:
1. Not a relative, friend or neighbour identified as involved in care for the person
2. The person they are caring for has advanced dementia, using fewer than two medicines, and/or not living at home

Health and social care professionals will be excluded if they are any of the following:
1. Have involvement with a person recruited as part of this study (i.e. is a patient of theirs)
2. Not based within the community
3. The people they support have advanced dementia, not living at home
4. Have no involvement with patients with mild-moderate dementia, on two or more meds

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified