ABILITY - TelerehABILITation: TechnologY-enhanced Multi-domain at Home Continuum of Care Program

Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus Foundation

Status: Completed

Conditions: Alzheimer Disease; Dementia; Cognitive Impairments

Treatments: Other: Ability platform program; Other: Usual care program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02746484

FdG_AD_02

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Ability research project, funded in Italy within the Smart Cities and Smart Communities funding program (MInistry of University and Research, Operational Regional Programme, Lombardy, Axis 1, Operational Regional Programme - European Funding for Regional Development 2007-2013), aims at developing and testing the efficacy and the impact of a Personal Smart Health Community able to provide innovative trajectories for people with cognitive impairment, putting them at the core of a continuous and intertwining treatment and support from both formal (e.g. physicians) and informal (e.g. near relatives) caregivers, with special focus on home-based care.

Within this framework of the Ability project the investigators test the efficacy of the home-based motor-cognitive rehabilitation program delivered with two different approaches: the Ability platform versus the usual care program

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• diagnosed as mild AD or MCI due to AD (Albert et al, 2011) according to DSM 5 diagnostic criteria (American Psychiatric Association, 2013);
• MMSE score >18
• school attendance (≥ 3 years).

Exclusion criteria

• dysmetria;
• serious deficits in visual acuity, acoustic perception, and in routine communication skills.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

Ability platform program

Experimental group

Description:

Multi-domain at home rehabilitation program delivered through the Ability platform.

Treatment:

Other: Ability platform program

Usual care program

Active Comparator group

Description:

Usual care at home program (paper and pencil cognitive activities; promotion of physical activity according to healthcare professional's advice)

Treatment:

Other: Usual care program