Connecting Seniors to Care
Status
Completed
Conditions
Dementia
Treatments
Other: AES 8 basic usage
Other: meals
Other: AES 8 advanced usage
Details and patient eligibility
About
The purpose of this study is to assess the feasibility of implementing the virtual assistant devices into the daily routine of participants and their caregivers,to measure social determinants of health,depression,cognitive impairment,nutritional and functional status in the cognitively impaired participants
Enrollment
53 patients
Sex
All
Ages
60+ years old
Volunteers
No Healthy Volunteers
Inclusion criteria
- cognitive impairment as reported in the Mental Health Screening/Assessment section on the Interfaith Ministries of Greater Houston's Meals on Wheels Program (IMGH MOW) intake form
- are on the IMGH MOW waiting list
- medically stable
Exclusion criteria
- do not have cognitive impairment
- have a pre-diagnosed terminal illness
- unable to ambulate, and/or are unable to use their upper extremities.
Trial design
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-Randomized
Interventional model
Sequential Assignment
Masking
None (Open label)
53 participants in 3 patient groups
Phase 1 (meals only)
Experimental group
Description:
Participants will receive meals delivered to them by the Meals oN wheels(MOW) program for 6 weeks.MOW will once a week deliver in-person enough frozen meals to cover lunch for 5 days and breakfast for 7 days. Study staff will call the participants twice a week to ask 5 questions about their health, mood, and meal consumption.At the end of the 6 weeks, a study team member will make an in-person visit to the participants' homes to measure Fried Frailty Phenotype(FFP), MHS, CES-D, MOCA, Activities of Daily Living (ADL)/Instrumental activities of daily living(IADL)s, NSI, and ZCBI. Caregivers will not receive meals during this first phase as the focus is on the nutritional status of the cognitively impaired older adult.
Treatment:
Other: meals
Phase 2 (Meals + Amazon Echo Show 8 (AES 8) basic usage)
Experimental group
Description:
Participants will have meals delivered and the AES device installed for basic usage
Treatment:
Other: meals
Other: AES 8 basic usage
Phase 3 (meals + AES 8 advanced )
Experimental group
Description:
Participants will have meals delivered and the AES device installed for advanced usage
Treatment:
Other: meals
Other: AES 8 advanced usage
Trial contacts and locations
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