Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: A Randomised Controlled Trial to Improve Support Services for Caregivers of Patients With Alzheimer Disease in Italy by UPgrading Quality of Care Through the Integration of Services and the Use of New TECHnologies (The UP-TECH Project)
Brief Summary: The UP-TECH project aims at developing an UPgrading quality of care for Alzheimer's disease patients through the integration of services and the use of new TECHnologies in order to also improving the quality of life of their family caregivers.


Options:
A: Inclusion criteria :

* Family caregivers of AD patients DSM IV-TR (American Psychiatric Association 2004) or NINCDS/ADRDA (McKhann et al. 1984).
* Age: over 18 years old
* score 12 or over on the Perceived Stress Scale 14 items (PSS-14, Cohen) Need for information or help
* Sign informed consent

Exclusion criteria :

* Professional or paid caregiver
* Physical or mental disease incompatible with patient's management
* Impossibility to participate in the educational program
* Absence of perceived stress
* Ongoing psychotherapy or a similar program in parallel
B: Inclusion Criteria:

* medical ICD-10 dementia diagnosis available for the patient (F00.-\*: Alzheimer disease or related disorders, F01.-: Vascular dementia, F03.-:Unspecified dementia)
* living with or sharing cooking facilities with the care recipient or providing care for a relative with diagnosed Alzheimer disease or related disorders for at least 4 hours on at least 4 days of a week for at least the past 6 months, respectively
* access to a telephone connection to be able to participate in the talking Time Intervention and the telephone- based interviews for the evaluation

Exclusion Criteria:

* lack of knowledge of German Language of informal caregiver
* risk of suicide in the informal caregiver
* actual psychiatric diagnosis of mental illness of the caregiver
* ICD-10-diagnosis of Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere (F02.-\*), except Dementia in Primary Parkinson disease (F02.3\*) and Lewy Body disease (F02.8/G31.82)
C: Inclusion Criteria:

General

* Age 21 years or older
* Ability to read, speak and understand English
* Home location within 50 miles of the study site Caregivers (CG)
* Active primary caregiver of a Person with Dementia (PwD) for at least 6 months and planning to remain the primary caregiver for the next 2 months
* Currently living with the PwD
* CG plans to live in the area for the duration of the study
* Is familiar and comfortable utilizing technology (e.g. computers, tablets, the internet)

Persons with Dementia (PwD)

* CG reports that the PwD exhibits at least one or more behavioral symptoms (any behavior at any frequency)
* PwD receiving psychotropic medication or cognitive enhancers will not be excluded.
* If PwD is on any of four classes of psychotropic medications (antidepressant, benzodiazepines, antipsychotic, or anti-convulsant) or an anti-dementia medication (memantine or a cholinesterase inhibitor), we will require that he/she have been on a stable dose for 60 days prior to enrollment (typical time frame in clinical trials) to minimize possible confounding effects of concomitant medications.
* Clinical diagnosis of dementia (any type) or a score of less than 24 on the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE)

Exclusion Criteria:

General

* Inability to read, speak or understand English
* Home location greater than 50 miles from the study site
* Lack of regular access to a telephone Caregivers (CG)
* Reading literacy of less than 6th grade
* Visual impairment to the extent of prohibiting interaction with the tool
* Hearing impairment sufficient to prohibit telephone communication
* Other self-identified mental or physical health issues that would distinctly interfere with the ability to reasonably test the tool or complete behavioral interventions (e.g. substance use disorder, schizophrenia, severe mobility issues)
* Hospitalized more than 3 times in the past year
* Participating in another study to help caregivers care for the person with dementia.

Persons with Dementia (PwD)

* At a terminal phase of illness, unable to respond to the environment or with a life expectancy less than 6 months
* Active suicide risk
* Imminent placement to nursing home (within the next 60 days)
* Hospitalized more than 3 times in the past year
* Currently in another study testing a medication to control behavioral symptoms
D: The eligibility criteria refers to the dyad.

Inclusion Criteria:

* patient with a diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease
* Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) patients score between 10 and 20
* patient living in the community
* presence of family caregiver

Exclusion Criteria:

* lack of informed consent from the Alzheimer's patient or caregiver. If the patient has been declared legally incompetent or has a support administrator appointed, informed consent will be requested from a family member or from a person appointed by a judge. In the case of natural incapacitation, verified by Alzheimer Evaluation Unit doctors, consent for the patient will be requested from the primary caregiver;
* the presence of more severe diseases in addition to Alzheimer's or unstable chronic conditions in both the AD patient and the family caregiver, as assessed by the Alzheimer Evaluation Unit and other professionals in the health district-intention of moving out of the health district within 12 months;
* lack of a family caregiver or a caregiver less than 18 years old

Answer: D