Chief Investigator: Dr Paul Clarkson

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.

ISCRTN Page

DESCANT Protocol


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