Developing and Evaluating In-Home Supportive Technology for Dementia Caregivers
Sponsor:
Brief Summary:
alleviate anxiety, burden, and loneliness in spousal and familial caregivers of individuals
with Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia.
Criteria
– Caregivers are fluent/literate in English
– Caregivers currently reside with spouse/family member with dementia
– Caregivers primarily use an iPhone
– Caregiver has wireless internet in home
Exclusion Criteria:
– Caregivers providing care for individuals with known non-neurodegenerative conditions
affecting behavior and cognition
– Caregivers providing care for individuals with longstanding Axis I psychiatric
disorder
– Caregivers providing care for individuals with metabolic disorder or major organ
dysfunction
– Caregivers providing care for individuals with alcohol abuse or dependence (within 5
years of dementia onset)
– Caregivers providing care for individuals with head trauma with loss of consciousness
greater than 30 minutes
– Caregivers providing care for individuals with contraindications to MRI imaging
– Caregivers providing care for individuals with large confluent white matter lesions
– Caregivers providing care for individuals with significant systemic medical illness
– Caregivers providing care for individuals who use a medication likely to affect
central nervous system functions adversely
If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, Las Vegas (Clark County), Orange County, Los
Angeles County, or Oregon, you may complete the following screening questionnaire to
determine your eligibility for participation: https://bit.ly/UCBDC Upon completion of the
screening questionnaire, the UC Berkeley research team will follow up soon after by email
or phone to confirm your eligibility status.
Locations
- University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States, 94720
- Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California, United States, 90011
- Orange County, Orange, California, United States, 92856
