Telerehabilitation as an alternative to COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on functional capacity, mental health and quality of life of older people with Dementia: a randomized and controlled clinical trial

niversidade Federal de São Carlos0 sitesOctober 8, 2020

ConditionsDementia I01.800

Overview

Phase: 未知
Intervention: Not specified
Conditions: Dementia
Sponsor: niversidade Federal de São Carlos
Status: Active, not recruiting
Last Updated: last year

Overview Investigators Eligibility Criteria Outcomes Similar Trials

Overview

Brief Summary

No summary available.

Registry

who.int

Start Date

October 8, 2020

End Date

March 31, 2023

Last Updated

last year

Study Type

Intervention

Investigators

Sponsor

niversidade Federal de São Carlos

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

•The study will include elderly people diagnosed with dementia, attested by the neurologist or psychiatrist who monitors the patient; caregivers and / or family members who spend most of the day with the elderly with dementia \- who live with the elderly for at least half of the day, four times a week, mandatorily; any member who lives in the house and who is familiar with cell phones that have video calling applications to enable the proposed assessments and intervention; Elderly who are in the mild and moderate stages of the disease, assessed by the Clinical Dementia Assessment Score (CDR).

Exclusion Criteria

•As there is an intention to treat all volunteers, the elderly and caregivers who do not have indications for physical activity performed at home will be excluded, attesting their physical fitness by the doctor they trust; older people who perform systematic physical exercise with professional monitoring that can interfere with the results; history of serious muscle injuries, motor deficit due to neuromuscular disease; motor or cognitive sequelae due to stroke, associated neurological diseases that impair cognition and mobility, such as Parkinson's disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Huntington's disease, epilepsy and traumatic brain injury; any functional or sensory impairment that prevents the application of the proposed tests (plegia or limb paresis, major tremor and functional impairment in the hands, severe and uncorrected audiovisual disorder that makes communication difficult during the tests); other types of dementia diagnosed; individuals with dementia in the advanced stage; uncontrolled heart disease, any cardiovascular or infectious disease present in the list of absolute contraindications described in the Physical Activity Readiness Medical Examination (2002\) (acute infectious disease, dissecting aortic aneurysm, severe aortic stenosis, congestive heart failure, unstable angina, acute myocardial infarction myocardium, acute myocarditis, acute pulmonary or systemic embolism, thrombophlebitis, ventricular tachycardia and other dangerous arrhythmias) or any other medical restriction that makes it impossible to participate in the present study; illiterate caregivers who are unable to read the guidelines and information in the support materials and caregivers who have the internet signal from the mobile device compromised for the proper progress of the evaluations and monitoring of the study.