Utilizing Senior Companions to Enhance Dementia Care

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

44

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

April 29, 2019

Primary Completion Date

August 31, 2020

Study Completion Date

August 31, 2020

Conditions
Alzheimer DiseaseDementia
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

PorchLight Project

Senior Companions (or other LSS-MN volunteers providing senior companionship services) who deliver the PorchLight Project will complete online CARES® Dementia Care Specialist training modules, additional trainings delivered by the research team (1. overview of the PorchLight Project, 2. review of the National Consensus Guidelines on Palliative Care, 3. review of the list of guided questions, and 4. review of journaling approach and LTSS resources), and participate in unstructured monthly check-ins (discussions and case review as applicable) with the research team.

Trial Locations (1)

55455

School of Public Health, Minneapolis

Sponsors

Collaborators (1)

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Johns Hopkins University

OTHER

collaborator

Brown University

OTHER

collaborator

National Institute on Aging (NIA)

NIH

collaborator

University of Texas

OTHER

lead

University of Minnesota

OTHER

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