Healthy Aging in People With Epilepsy Program (HAP-E)

University of California San Diego

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Epilepsy

Treatments: Behavioral: Healthy Aging in People with Epilepsy Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06052605

HAPE2023

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to develop and test an educational program about dementia in older adults living with epilepsy. The main questions it aims to answer are:

1. Can providing education on healthy aging, chronic disease management, dementia, and modifiable lifestyle dementia risk factors improve dementia knowledge and health literacy among older adults with epilepsy?
2. Can aging related education and resources improve quality of life among older adults with epilepsy?

Participants will:

• Complete a 12-week group educational program.
• Complete pre- and post-program evaluation.

Enrollment: 90 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 55+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Current diagnosis of epilepsy made by a neurologist, epileptologist, or internist/family medicine physician
• Proficiency in English

Exclusion criteria

• Dementia

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

---

90 participants in 1 patient group

HAP-E Epilepsy Participants

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Healthy Aging in People with Epilepsy Program