CONFIDENCE Financial Education for Caregivers

Case Western Reserve University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Alzheimer Disease; Financial Stress; Caregiver Burden; Dementia

Treatments: Behavioral: Confidently Navigating Financial Decisions and Enhancing Financial Wellbeing in Dementia Caregiving

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05292248

20210794HU

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine how feasible it is to deliver an online course to reduce out-of-pocket costs of caregiving and reduce financial stress among Latino family caregivers to a family member living with dementia. The investigators hope that that the results of this study will help to reduce high these out-of-pocket costs and improve financial wellbeing for Latino family caregivers.

Caregivers will be asked to to participate in 3 online surveys, in addition to participating in 5, 1.5 hour group-based Zoom learning sessions.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Caregiver to someone diagnosed by a physician with probably Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia at least 6 months ago
• Latino or Hispanic ethnicity
• At least 50 years of age of older
• Able to attend 5, 1.5 hour to 2 hour group-based lessons over 5 weeks
• No plans to place family member in a facility within the next 3 months

Exclusion criteria

• Unreliable access to email, a computer and internet access
• Does note speak and read English
• Previously participated in CONFIDENCE program

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 1 patient group

CONFIDENCE Education Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will attend the 5-week CONFIDENCEProgram. This program will include attending 5 group-based sessions delivered by videoconference. Each session will last approximately 1.5 hours each and will cover topics such as how to budget, accessing community resources to displace the out-of-pocket costs of caregiving, asking for help, balancing employment and caregiving, and more.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Confidently Navigating Financial Decisions and Enhancing Financial Wellbeing in Dementia Caregiving