Active clinical trials for "Alzheimer Disease"

The purpose of the study is to evaluate if AZD3480 and warfarin interact with each other or not, i.e. show the same or altered plasma concentration profiles when co-administered compared to administered alone.

The goal of this clinical trial is to develop and test how reminiscence offered by trained young adult volunteers using a digital storytelling (DST) platform may help older persons with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) to improve their social and emotional well-being. The main questions it aims to answer are: Whether is this reminiscence and DST based intervention effective in improving social and emotional well-being of older adults with ADRD? Whether do young adult participants improve their social and emotional well-being as well as knowledge and attitudes towards aging after participating this study? Older adult participants in the intervention group will receive 6 sessions of life-review with young adult volunteers and create a DST based on their life review discussion in the last 4 weeks. Older adult participants in the social wellness control group will receive 6 sessions of general talks with young adults and create a non-digital scrapbook or journal at week 7-10. Researchers will compare these two groups to see if participants in the intervention group benefit more on their well-being.

The present study will refine and conduct a preliminary efficacy evaluation of Care to Plan. Care to Plan is an online care planning tool that provides a succinct and clear overview of various types of dementia caregiver interventions, administers a brief validated assessment of risk, and generates individualized recommendations for dementia caregivers as well as resources that link users to a selected recommendation. There remains a lack of individualized information that can directly meet the diverse needs of caregivers or their relatives with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia (ADRD). This project will advance scientific knowledge, technical capability, and clinical practice as they pertain to ADRD management and caregiver support.

The inability of healthcare systems to effectively manage Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) often results in families remaining unaware of important community-based, long-term services and supports (LTSS) that could help to mitigate the negative effects of cognitive impairment. This project will feature a collaboration between Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota to evaluate a novel adaption of the volunteer Senior Companion Program (SCP) to: a) assist families better manage ADRD at home; b) identify and facilitate the use of LTSS; and c) improve engagement with primary care providers throughout the state of Minnesota. If successful, the PorchLight Project will offer a potentially efficient, wide-ranging service model for states and communities to implement for persons with ADRD and their caregiving families.

This study will examine whether a performing arts class will improve the well-being of primary unpaid caregivers of people with dementia

This study aims to develop and evaluate in-home assistive technology that is designed to alleviate anxiety, burden, and loneliness in spousal and familial caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia.

In the last few decades, insights into the impact of the sonic environment on persons have grown to include not only the adverse effects of extensive mechanical noise but also the beneficial effects of a well-designed sonic environment. People with dementia, however, perceive and understand the sonic environment differently. The most obvious difference is that the meanings they may give to the sounds they notice due to changing mental associations. However, also at an earlier perceptual stage, attention focusing and gating may be affected, reducing their ability to analyze a complex auditory scene. Behaviour associated with the appraisal of the sound environment may change with the emergence of dementia. The objective of this study is to determine the effect size of a carefully tuned personalized sonic environment (delivered via AcustiCare) on agitation and distress (NPI and PAS), night sleep and stress (Via wristband) and on quality of life (QUALIDEM) in a population of older adults with dementia and behavioural symptoms.

This an open label study to assess the pharmacokinetics of CT1812 in normal healthy volunteers.

The investigators explore the effectiveness of grounding as a non-pharmacological therapy for treating sleep disturbances, anxiety, and depression in patients with mild AD.

This study was randomized controlled study conducted to determine the effect of Nihavent theme on reducing adjustment difficulties in Alzheimer's patients. The study was carried out with 30 patients.15 patients constituted the experimental group and 15 patients formed the control group. Before the application, the scale was administered to both groups through face-to-face interviews. The patients in the experimental group were informed about the music session in advance.Instrumental songs in nihavent theme were played with the sound system to the experimental group. The sessions were lasted 12 weeks in total and there were two sessions per week, and each session took approximately 50 minutes to complete. While no intervention was performed for the patients in the control group. One week after the last music session, the the scale was re-administered to both groups.