Families Coping Together With Alzheimer's Disease (FACT-AD)

Yale University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Family Research; Dementia

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency; NIH

Identifiers

NCT04642885

R01AG058565 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

2000024219

Details and patient eligibility

About

Two remote phone/zoom calls are required to assess experiences as a family coping with dementia.

Full description

Using a combination of paper or online surveys in addition to interactive visits with blood pressure monitoring, participants are observed interacting with each other. Blood pressure devices are mailed to their homes and only worn for six minute intervals. The first visit generally lasts one hour and the second visit 90 minutes.

Enrollment: 354 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Parent must be 55 plus with symptoms or a diagnosis of dementia
• Adult child must be over 18 and involved in some way with assisting parent.

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

354 participants in 1 patient group

dyad

Description:

parent with dementia and an adult child who is a caregiver