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Enhancing Sleep Quality for Nursing Home Residents With Dementia - R33 Phase

Description

This study seeks to improve clinical outcomes for an important, growing, and vulnerable population-nursing home residents with Alzheimer's disease or related dementias-by testing an evidence-based intervention to improve these residents' sleep. It will also examine the implementation and sustainment of this intervention.

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

This study seeks to improve clinical outcomes for an important, growing, and vulnerable population-nursing home residents with Alzheimer's disease or related dementias-by testing an evidence-based intervention to improve these residents' sleep. It will also examine the implementation and sustainment of this intervention.

Enhancing Sleep Quality for Nursing Home Residents With Dementia: Pragmatic Trial of an Evidence-Based Frontline Huddling Program

Enhancing Sleep Quality for Nursing Home Residents With Dementia - R33 Phase

Condition
Alzheimer Disease
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Lakewood

Vivage/Beecan Corporation, Lakewood, Colorado, United States, 80228

Murfreesboro

National HealthCare Corporation, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United States, 37130

San Marcos

Caraday Healthcare, LLC, San Marcos, Texas, United States, 78666

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Nursing home residents aged \>=50 years with an Alzheimer disease or related dementia (ADRD) diagnosis, identified by nursing home staff participating in frontline LOCK sleep huddles as having sleep problems
  • * Residents with a high risk of OSA who are not being treated for OSA because actigraph measurements are inaccurate in that population.
  • * Residents who have a persistent bilateral resting tremor or paralysis in both arms (a subset of persons with Parkinson's disease and related significant tremor-causing diagnoses), due to actigraph measurement inaccuracies

Ages Eligible for Study

50 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa,

Lynn Snow, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, The University of Alabama

Study Record Dates

2027-05-29