Telerehabilitation for elderly people with Dementia and their caregivers

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Recruitment completed

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: Not specified

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.