Resident-to-Resident Elder Mistreatment Intervention for Dementia Care in Assisted Living

Hebrew Home at Riverdale

Status: Completed

Conditions: Assisted Living, Resident to Resident Elder Mistreatment

Treatments: Other: R-REM training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT03383289

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5R01AG057389 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Resident-to-resident elder mistreatment (R-REM) is a significant problem in long-term services and support settings (LTSS), and likely to cause physical and or psychological distress. The proposed project tests an intervention developed for use by LTSS staff. As such, it represents an important step in the process of developing approaches for ameliorating and preventing R-REM in assisted living residences which house residents with dementia and related behavioral disorders, and is thus likely to have significant public health impact.

Enrollment: 930 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• all long term residents residing at each facility at baseline, for those unable to consent, proxy consent will be sought

Exclusion criteria

• residents receiving hospice care,
• facilities will have the option to exclude individuals for selected reasons, (e.g., severe psychosis)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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930 participants in 2 patient groups

R-REM training

Experimental group

Description:

3 module training for frontline staff in assisted living facilities related to recognizing and management of resident-to-resident elder mistreatment

Treatment:

Other: R-REM training

Usual Care

No Intervention group

Description:

Usual care arm