Status:

ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION

Extending the Validation of SCREEN to Persons Living With Dementia or in Retirement Homes

Lead Sponsor:

University of Waterloo

Collaborating Sponsors:

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

Conditions:

Malnutrition

Nutrition Poor

Eligibility:

All Genders

55+ years

Brief Summary

Older adults (≥ 55 years) who do not eat enough nutritious food are at risk of malnutrition. Malnutrition can lead to frailty, hospitalization, poor quality of life, and death. SCREEN (Seniors in the ...

Detailed Description

About a third of cognitively well, community-living older Canadians are at nutrition risk, which has been shown to lead to hospitalizations, poor quality of life, and death. Since SCREEN was created 2...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • 55 years of age or older
  • potential participants with MCI-D will have a caregiver who either lives with the participant or is in daily contact OR
  • potential participants have subjective complaint - MoCA used to confirm cogntive change OR
  • Retirement home participants will have lived in their residence for a minimum of 3 months
  • read and communicate in English
  • provide written consent or assent for persons MCI-D; caregiver written consent required if participant with cognitive change unable to provide

Exclusion

  • living in a nursing home
  • do not speak or read English
  • live outside of the geographic boundaries of this study (i.e., \> 45 km from Kitchener/Waterloo or London).

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

September 25 2022

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

August 31 2025

Estimated Enrollment :

600 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT04675229

Start Date

September 25 2022

End Date

August 31 2025

Last Update

July 11 2025

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Heather Keller

Guelph, Ontario, Canada