Improving the Quality of Dementia Care Through Innovative Redesign of the Memory Care Environment

Mayo Clinic

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dementia

Treatments: Other: Retro-fitted room with technological enhancements

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04350060

18-002202

Details and patient eligibility

About

Research study is being done to demonstrate novel opportunities to transform the way the dementia community is cared for.

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients currently residing at Arbor Terrace memory care unit
• Patients diagnosed with dementia

Exclusion criteria

• Hospice patients with less than 30 days of life expectancy at the time of enrollment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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10 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects with dementia will be living in a retro-fitted room with technological enhancements for a 12 month period.

Treatment:

Other: Retro-fitted room with technological enhancements

Standard of Care Group

No Intervention group