Status:

COMPLETED

Capacity Assessment in Persons With Alzheimer's Disease

Lead Sponsor:

Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Conditions:

Alzheimer's Disease

Capacity to Consent to Treatment

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to assess decision-making capacity in persons with Alzheimer's disease. First, our goal is to validate four French capacity assessment tools for persons with Alzheimer's D...

Detailed Description

Study of Alzheimer's disease patients show a wide variability in decision-making abilities, especially for the consent to treatment and the ability to vote. No tools are available to assess the capaci...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • for patients with Alzheimer's disease: age \>=18 years, to be native speakers of French and French nationality, Diagnosed with a Alzheimer's disease and followed in a French "Centre Memory of Resources and Research"(CMRR)
  • for control subjects: age \>=18 years, to be native speakers of French and French nationality, have no complaints of memory problems, primary caregiver of patient with AD of the same age as the patient nearly 10 years

Exclusion

  • for all participants: confusion, severe psychiatric disorders, stroke, blindness, uncorrected hearing loss, refusal to participate in the study
  • for patients with Alzheimer's disease: other dementia than AD
  • for control subjects: diagnosed dementia

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

June 1 2010

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

September 1 2014

Estimated Enrollment :

400 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT01190800

Start Date

June 1 2010

End Date

September 1 2014

Last Update

October 15 2014

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Hôpital Louis Mourier

Colombes, France, 92700