Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: An Innovative Caregiver Tool to Assess and Manage Behavioral Symptoms of Dementia
Brief Summary: Behavioral symptoms that commonly occur with dementia are associated with increased health care utilization and can lead to challenges for the person living with dementia and their caregivers. Caregivers need knowledge and skills to monitor these behaviors, to identify what triggers them, and to learn how to use proven, practical medication-free strategies to prevent and manage the behaviors. The purpose of this study is to develop and test the WeCareAdvisor, a customized, internet-based computer tool for family caregivers that helps them to assess, manage and track behavioral symptoms and their contributing factors (e.g., pain, sleep disturbance), and that provides tailored strategies for in-home, medication-free behavior management. This study is a collaboration between researchers at the University of Michigan and Johns Hopkins University.


Options:
A: 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
B: Inclusion Criteria:

They were caregivers aged 25 or above and must have be caring for a care recipient diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease for at least 3 months. They should be the primary caregiver and a spouse, kin (e.g. daughter/son or daughter/son-in-law) or sibling of the care recipient.

Exclusion Criteria:

To ensure intervention fidelity, participants who showed signs of severe intellectual deficits, demonstrate suicidal ideation, exhibit evidence of psychotic disorders, or cannot read or speak fluent Chinese / Cantonese were excluded.
C: 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)
D: Inclusion Criteria:

* parents of neonates receiving care in the Children's National NICU

Exclusion Criteria:

* infant is not being discharged with a custodial parent (e.g., in custody of Child Protection Services)
* neither parent can complete an interview in English,
* the parent who will be providing most of the care is younger than 18 years of age,
* those with insufficient knowledge of English to participate in the telephone interviews
* the parent/caregiver has plans to leave the District of Columbia (DC) metropolitan area permanently within the following year.

Answer: A