Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: Treatment of Agitation in the Nursing Home
Brief Summary: The purpose of this study is to examine the efficacy of non-pharmacological ways to treat agitated behaviors in nursing home residents with dementia. The hypothesis is that non-pharmacological interventions will be more effective than placebo in decreasing such behaviors.


Options:
A: Inclusion Criteria:

* Age 60 or older
* Diagnosis of dementia derived from the resident's medical chart at the facility or from an attending physician, as based on DSM-IV criteria and the Report of the NINCDS-ADRDA
* Resident of the facility for at least three weeks so that nursing staff members know the resident well enough to accurately assess him or her
* Identified by nursing staff to exhibit either verbal agitation or physical non-aggressive agitation at least several times a day

Exclusion Criteria:

* Lifelong diagnosis of schizophrenia
* Bipolar disorder diagnosed prior to onset of dementia
* Diagnosis of premorbid mental retardation
* Judged by direct-care nursing staff to have a life expectancy of less than 3 months
* Expected to leave the nursing home (either to enter the hospital or to go home) within the next 4 months
* Agitation manifested less than 6 times a day
B: Inclusion Criteria:

* Institutionalized patients with Alzheimer's
C: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patient must be 50 years of age or older with NINCDS-ADRDA defined possible or probable AD
* Patient must have psychotic symptoms that developed after the diagnosis of AD was established. These symptoms must include visual and/or auditory hallucinations, and/or delusions
* Patient must have been a nursing home resident for ≥ 4 weeks prior to randomization, not bedridden and expected to remain in the facility throughout the study
* Patient must have actively experienced and verbally communicated psychotic symptoms during the month prior to the Screening visit and weekly during the previous 2 weeks prior to Baseline
* If patient is on acetylcholinesterase inhibitor (AChEI) therapy and/or memantine, must be on stable doses for 3 months prior to the Baseline visit and during the study
* Patient is willing and able to provide informed consent. If the subject is unable to provide written consent due to the severity of dementia, consent must be given by a legally authorized representative

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patient has a history of significant psychotic disorders prior to or concomitantly with the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease including, but not limited to, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder
* Patient is unable to communicate verbally
* Patient has current evidence of a serious and/or unstable cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, renal, hematologic or other medical disorder, including cancer or malignancies, which would affect the patient's ability to participate in the study
* Patient has had a myocardial infarction in the last six months
* Patient has moderate to severe congestive heart failure
* Patient has any surgery planned during the screening, treatment, or follow-up periods that could interfere with participation in the study per the protocol assessments

Patients will be evaluated at screening to ensure that all criteria for study participation are met. These evaluations will include specific measures of psychosis severity, delirium, dementia, cardiovascular condition, and pregnancy status. Patients may be excluded from the study based on these assessments (and specifically if it is determined that their baseline health and psychiatric condition do not meet all protocol-specified entry criteria).
D: Inclusion criteria:

* Nursing homes within pre-determined regions of Ontario that expressed an interest in the full intervention (the regions, or hubs, contain a wide variety of nursing home types within a reasonable travel distance \[i.e., \<100 km\])
* Nursing homes within the hubs in which the medical and administrative leads agree to and support the project

Exclusion criteria:

* Nursing homes with a previous or ongoing involvement in externally supported quality improvement initiatives focusing on antipsychotic medications
* Nursing homes without any prescribers caring for at least 10 residents routinely
* Nursing homes with fewer than 30 residents

Answer: A