Resource Use and Disease Course in Dementia (REDIC)

Sykehuset Innlandet HF

Status: Completed

Conditions: Neurodegenerative Diseases; Dementia

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01920100

E13237

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project is based on a three-year program that aims to improve the knowledge of the socioeconomic consequences of dementia in Norway. By including patients with and without dementia in four different cohorts (from nursing homes, from memory clinics, home-dwelling persons with dementia and elderly persons without dementia), the project's aim is to describe the course of dementia, the economical cost of dementia and to look into possible risk factors for dementia.

Enrollment: 696 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Memory clinic sample

Inclusion Criteria:

• All patients examined at a memory clinic with mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia

Exclusion Criteria:

• None

In-home care sample

Inclusion Criteria:

• Persons 70 years of age or older receiving in-home care from the municipality

Exclusion Criteria:

• None

Nursing-home sample

Inclusion Criteria:

• All persons admitted to the nursing home with an expected stay of more than four weeks.
• Participants should be 65 years or older, unless established dementia disease, in which case younger persons also will be included

Exclusion Criteria:

• Life expectancy of less than six weeks

Control sample

Inclusion Criteria:

• Persons 65 years or older without any sign of dementia

Exclusion Criteria:

• None

Trial design

696 participants in 4 patient groups

Memory clinic

Description:

People visiting a memory clinic at Ullevål University Hospital, St Olav Hospital or Innlandet Hospital Trust (n=400). The patients will be assessed three times over a three-year follow-up. Baseline inclusion started in January 2010. The final assessments will take place in spring 2014.

Nursing homes

Description:

People admitted to a nursing home recruited from municipalities in Hedmark, Oppland, Nord-Trøndelag and Bergen (n=1000). Baseline assessments take place when the person is admitted to the nursing home. The patients will be assessed every six months over a three-year follow-up period. The first participant was included in March 2012, and baseline inclusion will be completed in December 2013.

In-home care

Description:

People 70 years of age or older receiving in-home care recruited from municipalities in Hedmark, Oppland, Oslo, Østfold and Buskerud (n=995). The patients will be assessed three times over a three-year follow-up period. Baseline inclusion started in April 2009 and the final assessments will take place in December 2013.

People without dementia

Description:

People without dementia recruited from Nord-Trøndelag, Drammen and Oslo (n=400). The participants will be assessed three times over a three-year follow-up period. Baseline inclusion will take place in autumn 2012 and the last follow-up will take place in autumn 2015.