Digital Interventions in Neuro-Rehabilitation: Gotcha!
Dementia, Alzheimer Disease, Anomia
About this trial
This is an interventional other trial for Dementia focused on measuring Digital Therapy, Digital intervention, Therapy app
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Person with mild/moderate dementia
- Self-reported proper naming difficulty which we will then assess at Time Point 1 English as their dominant language
- Able to tolerate MRI brain scan
- Able to give informed consent
- Able to use the DNI (app)
Exclusion Criteria:
- No diagnosis of developmental language disorders
- No diagnosis of severe dementia or primary progressive aphasia
- No major co-existing neurological or psychiatric diagnosis
- No contraindications to brain scanner (e.g. the presence of ferromagnetic implants or other metallic or electronic objects in the body, weight over 24 stone, claustrophobia or pregnancy).
Sites / Locations
- University College LondonRecruiting
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Active Comparator
Active Comparator
Gotcha! Therapy Application
Gotcha! Therapy Application: Maintenance
Participants will receive the Gotcha therapy daily for six weeks.Participants are required to use the app everyday for a maximum of 45 minutes. After this time they enter a twelve week block with no therapy or maintenance of therapy (see Gotcha maintenance arm). This aim of this arm is to invesitgate the efficacy of the Gotcha therapy for proper-noun anomia in mild-moderate patients with dementia (Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia and mixed)
Participants will receive the Gotcha therapy for six weeks as described in the Gotcha arm. After this time they enter a twelve week block of maintenance of therapy gains made in the initial six week therapy block. The maintenance block consists of a weekly test of the Gotcha outcome measure to monitor the therapy gains made during the therapy block. If any previously correctly named person is incorrectly named during these weekly tests then the participant must complete a 'top-up' therapy session. They will then be tested again the following week. The aim of this arm is to compare Gotcha maintenance with Gotcha, to see if extra testing and therapy is required to maintain gains made during an initial intense therapy block.