Summary
DESCANT is part of a programme grant entitled: Effective Home Support in Dementia Care: Components, Impacts and Costs of Tertiary Prevention.
The aim is to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of memory aids delivered by Dementia Support Practitioners to people with early stage dementia. The study has two primary objectives:
- To estimate the effect of this intervention on patients and carers.
- To evaluate the true cost of this intervention, and whether it yields value for money.
There are also four secondary objectives:
- To measure whether participants use this intervention and, if so, which are more likely to do so.
- To identify which participants are more likely to benefit from this intervention.
- To study when memory aids are most effective.
- To explore the barriers to, and facilitators of, implementing this intervention.
Data collection through memory services across 10 Trusts is underway.
Contact Details
Trial Manager / Lead Contact: Dr Helen Chester
Email: Helen.Chester@manchester.ac.uk
Website: http://research.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/pssru/research/DementiaHomeCare/TrialofMemoryAids