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27 Dementia Trials near Durham, NC

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Suvorexant for Postoperative Delirium

Durham, North Carolina
This research study will evaluate the effectiveness of postoperative administration of a drug called suvorexant, to improve postoperative sleep and decrease the severity of delirium (serious confusion) in adults 65 years and older undergoing non-cardiac surgery.

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 2
Age:65+

130 Participants Needed

Deferiprone for Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

Durham, North Carolina
Ruptured cerebral aneurysms lead to subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH),that has a high morbidity and mortality rate, the severity of which is predicted by the "Hunt-Hess grade" (HHG). SAH leads to iron (Fe) and hemoglobin (Hb) accumulation in the brain, which is toxic for neurons. Ferritin (iron reported in the brian) and iron overload leads to brain atrophy, specifically in the mesial temporal lobe (hippocampus, impairing patients' cognition. It is estimated that 50% of survivors have cognitive deficits. Most of the survivors of SAH could not return to work. Iron chelation therapy has been recently gaining ground as a therapeutic intervention in intraparenchymal hemorrhage and in SAH. However, there has not been any study that assess the iron deposition in the brain and the level of ferritin in the cerebrospinal fluid of SAH patients. The investigators propose to conduct a randomized trial using Deferiprone (oral chelating agent, "De") + standard of care versus standard of care in patient with SAH to: 1. assess the level of ferritin (Ft) in CSF (CSF withdrawn from ventriculostomy tube), 2. assess functional outcomes measured by the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) score, a score used to assess the level of dementia, mainly in Alzheimer disease patients. 3. quantify the the total iron deposition in the brain based on MRI

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 1, 2

66 Participants Needed

Communication Improvement Feedback for Cancer Care

Durham, North Carolina
The goal-concordant care lab will develop and test strategies to optimize communication in advanced serious illness.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Enrolling By Invitation
Trial Phase:Unphased

5000 Participants Needed

AVP-786 for Agitation in Alzheimer's Disease

Durham, North Carolina
This trial is testing a medication called AVP-786 on individuals who have taken part in previous studies. The goal is to see if this medication can help with their conditions over time.
No Placebo Group
Pivotal Trial (Near Approval)

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Age:50 - 90

1197 Participants Needed

Stress Management Toolkit for Dementia

Durham, North Carolina
The purpose of this study is to develop a prototype of a home-based, dyadic tangible toolkit comprised of simple tools to help people living with dementia (PLWD) and their care partners manage stress at home. A human-centered design approach will be used to develop and user-test a prototype of a dyadic, tangible stress-management toolkit with and for PLWD and their care partners; and to explore the feasibility of collecting several stress-related outcomes. A total of 4 focus groups (n=3-4 dyads/group) will be convened to explore the experiences, perceptions, preferences, and recommendations of dementia-caring dyads regarding stress, stress management, and key components and features of a stress management toolkit. Eligible tools for the toolkit include low burden, high safety tools such as weighted blankets, robotic pets and baby dolls, guided journals, aromatherapy and bright light therapy devices, and massage and acupressure tools. Ten dyads who were not involved in prototype development will then use the toolkit for 2 weeks. Feedback on usability, feasibility, and acceptability will be collected through questionnaires (end of weeks 1 and 2) and 3 focus groups (3-4 dyads/group at end of week 2). We will collect stress-related, participant-reported outcomes (e.g., neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia, caregiver stress, dyadic relationship strain), and saliva biospecimens from participants with dementia and their care partners at baseline and end of week 2, to explore their utility as endpoints in a future toolkit intervention that uses a single-arm, pre-post study design. Results will yield valuable data to support development and preliminary testing of a stress management toolkit intervention in a future pilot study. This study involves human subjects and is expected to yield no more than minimal risk. Tools eligible for the toolkit must have demonstrated high degrees of safety in prior research. Major risks for participation include the potential for negative emotional responses to focus group discussions and surveys pertaining to stress, excess time burden to participate in the study, and breach of confidentiality. It is not anticipated, but there is a potential for physical discomfort if tools are not used as directed, which is why the toolkits will include a user guide outlining safety information, which a research team member will review with each participant prior to use.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Age:21+

30 Participants Needed

Caregiver-Assisted Pain Coping for Dementia

Durham, North Carolina
The purpose of the study is to develop a caregiver-assisted pain coping skills training program for older adults who have pain and mild to moderate dementia and are living at home with a family caregiver. The investigators are planning to recruit 30 patient-caregiver dyads (60 individuals).
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased
Age:50+

60 Participants Needed

Atorvastatin for Preventing Dementia

Durham, North Carolina
PREVENTABLE is a multi-center, randomized, parallel group, placebo-controlled superiority study. Participants will be randomized 1:1 to atorvastatin 40 mg or placebo. This large study conducted in community-dwelling older adults without cardiovascular disease (CVD) or dementia will demonstrate the benefit of statins for reducing the primary composite of death, dementia, and persistent disability and secondary composites including mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and cardiovascular events.

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 4
Age:75+

20000 Participants Needed

Community Health Worker Support for Seriously Ill Older Veterans

Durham, North Carolina
The investigators aim to support care partner's well-being and satisfaction with VA care and decrease their work burden by offering extra support from a trained Community Health Worker who will help connect the care partner to helpful resources in their communities and in the VA. The investigators also hope to help Veterans well-being and satisfaction with VA care by supporting their care partner more sufficiently allowing the care partner to focus on caregiving tasks.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Not Yet Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased

480 Participants Needed

Retinal Imaging for Neurodegenerative Disease

Durham, North Carolina
This trial uses special cameras to take detailed pictures of the back of the eye in people with cognitive impairments or neurodegenerative diseases. Researchers analyze these images to find early signs of these diseases by examining tiny blood vessels in the eye.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting

2000 Participants Needed

Zoledronic Acid for Parkinson's Disease

Durham, North Carolina
This home-based study is a randomized (1:1) placebo-controlled trial of a single infusion of zoledronic acid-5 mg (ZA) for the prevention of fractures in men and women aged 60 years and older with Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism with at least 2 years of follow-up. A total of 2650 participants will be enrolled and randomized in the United States. Participants, follow-up outcome assessors, and study investigators will be blinded to assigned study treatment. This trial is funded by the National Institute of Aging.

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 4
Age:60+

2650 Participants Needed

LY3954068 for Alzheimer's Disease

Durham, North Carolina
The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety of LY3954068 in participants with early symptomatic Alzheimer's Disease (AD). The study will also investigate how much LY3954068 gets into the bloodstream and will test the effects of LY3954068 on markers of AD. The study will be comprised of two parts, A and B. Each enrolled participant in Part A will receive a single dose of LY3954068 or placebo (no active drug) given into the spinal fluid. Each participant in Part B will receive 2 doses of either LY3954068 or placebo administered into the spinal fluid. Participants will have the opportunity to join an optional bridging period to a separate potential study where participants would receive LY3954068. The study will last up to approximately 45 weeks for Part A, and 100 weeks for Part B, including the screening period.

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 1
Age:50 - 85

48 Participants Needed

Connect-Home for Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia

Chapel Hill, North Carolina
This study is a parallel arm, cluster randomized trial (CRT) to test the efficacy of Connect-Home ADRD, a transitional care intervention focusing on Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) patients with Alzheimer's disease and dementias and their caregivers during transitions from SNFs to home, assisted, living, and long-term care. The primary hypothesis is that the intervention will reduce caregiver strain (Aim 1) and patient neuropsychiatric symptoms (Aim 2).
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased
Age:19+

360 Participants Needed

Advance Care Planning for Alzheimer's and Dementia

Chapel Hill, North Carolina
This study will test the Dementia Advance Care Planning (AD ACP) Toolkit intervention to usual care in facilitating goals of care (GOC) discussions between People Living with Dementia (PLwD) and primary care team members over an 18-month period. The primary outcome is to assess the frequency and quality of GOC discussions with PLwD. Secondary outcomes include the identification of preferred surrogates, assessment of decisional capacity, and the completion of portable ACP orders. This randomized clinical trial aims to determine if the AD ACP Toolkit can enhance ACP practices and improve care planning outcomes for PLwD compared to the standard care approach.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased

120 Participants Needed

Training Programs for Dementia Care

Chapel Hill, North Carolina
This project will compare two training models of an evidence-based online dementia care training program for direct care staff in assisted living to a waitlist control: 1) essentiALZ training and 2) essentiALZ training + Project ECHO. It will examine the extent to which each model is implemented and achieves its intended outcomes to improve staff knowledge and attitudes, change care practices, and improve the wellbeing of staff, residents, and residents' family members. Results will inform next steps in dementia care training for the assisted living (AL) and broader long-term care workforce. To examine these outcomes, data will be collected from AL staff and families over the course of 6 months. Staff will complete questionnaires and participate in interviews (as applicable) at baseline, post-training, 3-months, and 6-months. Families will participate in interviews at baseline, 3-months, and 6-months.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased

1764 Participants Needed

PAINAD Scale for Painful Dementia

Chapel Hill, North Carolina
The purpose of this study is to learn if the Pain in Advanced Dementia (PAINAD) scale can improve emergency pain care in persons living with dementia (PLWD). It is hypothesized that a PAINAD electronic health record (EHR) prompt that appears to emergency department (ED) staff will enable them to accurately assess pain levels and lead to better pain treatment for PLWD.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased
Age:65+

1899 Participants Needed

Neflamapimod for Lewy Body Dementia

Chapel Hill, North Carolina
This trial is testing neflamapimod, a drug that may help improve thinking and memory skills. It targets people with Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB), who often struggle with these issues. The drug works by reducing inflammation in the brain.

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Age:55+

160 Participants Needed

Palliative Care Program for Alzheimer's Disease

Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Millions of Americans have late-stage Alzheimer's and related dementias (ADRD), causing suffering due to loss of awareness of self and family, progressive dependency, physical and neuropsychiatric symptoms, and physical, emotional and financial strain for caregivers. Investigators now propose a multi-site randomized clinical trial of the ADRD Palliative Care (ADRD-PC) program for persons with late-stage ADRD and their family caregivers, triggered during hospitalization. Investigators aim to learn if this program of dementia-specific palliative care, standardized caregiver education, and transitional care is effective to reduce burdensome hospital transfers, improve symptom treatment and control, augment supportive services, and reduce nursing home transitions for patients, and to improve caregiver outcomes of communication, shared decision-making and distress.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Age:55+

474 Participants Needed

AL001 for Frontotemporal Dementia

Chapel Hill, North Carolina
This trial is testing AL001, a drug given through an IV, to see if it can help people with a genetic mutation that causes frontotemporal dementia. The goal is to find out if AL001 can improve brain health in these individuals.
Pivotal Trial (Near Approval)

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 3
Age:25 - 85

110 Participants Needed

AI Assistance for Cognitive Overload

Chapel Hill, North Carolina
The goal of this study is to explore cognitive burden perceptions among physicians in relation to case report writing. Furthermore, this study evaluates the use of artificial intelligence (AI) assistance as a tool to reduce cognitive burden among providers preparing and submitting case reports. If an AI-tool is helpful in this setting, it may potentially help increase reporting of rare medical events and thereby improve the evidence base for care of these patient populations. This study will occur at a single time point which is expected to last approximately 2 hours. This session will include reviewing two rare tumor cases and then writing a clinical vignette with and without AI assistance.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Not Yet Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased

10 Participants Needed

Memantine + Exercise for Cognitive Impairment in Breast Cancer

Chapel Hill, North Carolina
This randomized, placebo-controlled trial aims to assess the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of memantine and the University of Carolina (UNC)'s Get Real \& Heel cancer exercise program (MEM+EX) in addressing cancer-related cognitive impairment (CRCI) and underlying CRCI biomarkers. Ninety stage I-III breast cancer patients with mild cognitive difficulties during chemotherapy will be randomized into three groups: MEM+EX, memantine, or placebo. The study will evaluate recruitment, retention, adherence, acceptability, cognitive function, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), inflammatory markers, and frailty at multiple time points.

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 2
Sex:Female

90 Participants Needed

Why Other Patients Applied

"I have a very strong family history of Alzheimer’s, with my maternal grandmother, mother, uncle, and sister having the disease. My APOE status is 2/4. My memory is going, although 6 months ago I tested decently on some cognitive tests. I'd like to help myself by getting ahead of my condition and help others in a similar situation by participating in medical research."

EK
Mild Cognitive Impairment PatientAge: 72

"I'm so used to losing things, forgetting things, making up to acronyms to remember things only to remember the acromym but not what the letters stand for... I enter a new room to look for an item, only to forget what I was looking for. I've discussed the existing treatments with my neurologist and she's on board with my joining a clinical trial."

AH
Dementia PatientAge: 64

"I have been on standard Alzheimer's medication for a few years but know this treatment only works to delay my cognitive deterioration, not improve it. I've been doing research, which brought me here, to consider some of the latest research drugs. While I know that there's no guarantee that a clinical trial improves my condition, I'd like to give one a try and help further the research for all."

VL
Alzheimer's PatientAge: 71

"I watched my mother suffer through years of Alzheimer's Disease and I want to help advance the science for treating AD. I don't want anyone else to have go through what our family went through."

OF
Alzheimer's Disease PatientAge: 65

"I watched my mother die from Parkinson’s. At the time of her death, she weighed 85 pounds and could not move any muscles voluntarily except her eyelids. I would like to participate in a trial to help find a better treatment for PD than what is currently available. It is a devastating illness. It breaks my heart that other families will have to go through this."

WU
Healthy Volunteer PatientAge: 76

Novel Lighting for Fall Prevention in Dementia

Chapel Hill, North Carolina
This project will test the effectiveness of a novel intervention consisting of unobtrusive, low-intensity, horizontal and vertical lights that outline the bathroom or entry way doorframe in residents' rooms and provide visual cues to promote postural stability. Specifically, this pragmatic crossover trial will enroll 335 assisted living residents with dementia and follow them for one year, comparing the incidence of nighttime falls during the lighting condition to the incidence of falls during the control condition; secondarily, it will determine whether and to what extent the intervention effect is modified by resident- and environmental-level risk factors, and satisfaction with the lighting system.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Enrolling By Invitation
Trial Phase:Unphased

335 Participants Needed

MK-1167 for Alzheimer's Disease

Raleigh, North Carolina
Researchers want to learn if giving MK-1167 (the study medicine) along with acetylcholinesterase inhibitor (AChEI) therapy can improve symptoms of Alzheimer's disease dementia (AD dementia), such as memory and mental activity. AD dementia is the most common type of dementia. AChEI therapy is the standard treatment for AD dementia. The goals of this study are to learn: * If at least one dose level (amount) of MK-1167 works to improve a person's memory and thinking compared to a placebo * About the safety of MK-1167 and if people tolerate it

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 2
Age:55 - 90

350 Participants Needed

ITI-1284 for Agitation in Dementia

Raleigh, North Carolina
This is a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, flexible-dose study of the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of ITI-1284 in patients with agitation associated with Alzheimer's dementia

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 2
Age:55+

320 Participants Needed

Ramipril for Memory Loss in Glioblastoma Patients

Mebane, North Carolina
This study is to determine if an oral drug called Ramipril can lower the chance of memory loss in patients with glioblastoma getting chemoradiation. Patients will take Ramipril during chemoradiation and continue until 4 months post-treatment. Memory loss will be assessed using several neurocognitive tests throughout the duration of the study.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting

75 Participants Needed

ONO-2020 for Alzheimer's Disease

Raleigh, North Carolina
This is a Phase 2, double-blind, parallel-group, placebo-controlled study to assess safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and efficacy of ONO-2020 in participants with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD). This study aims to determine whether administering ONO-2020, an epigenetic regulator, may improve cognitive functions like memory and cognition in individuals with Alzheimer's disease dementia.

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 2
Age:55 - 85

240 Participants Needed

Polypill for Alzheimer's Disease

Raleigh, North Carolina
This is an estimation-focused Phase 2 study designed to explore and quantify treatment-related changes across multiple clinical outcomes in patients with Alzheimer's disease over a 210-day period. The anticipated study population are males and females aged 50-85 years with very mild to severe Alzheimer's Disease. The duration of individual patient participation will be approximately 224 Days: up to 14 days for Screening, 180 days for study drug administration, and a final follow-up visit at 210 days. The planned study duration is 12-18 months from Screening of the first patient until the last follow-up of the last patients.

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 2
Age:50 - 85

103 Participants Needed

Donanemab for Early Alzheimer's Disease

Greensboro, North Carolina
This trial is testing donanemab, a drug for early Alzheimer's disease. It targets people with early symptoms and specific brain changes. The drug helps remove harmful proteins from the brain, potentially slowing down or improving symptoms.
Pivotal Trial (Near Approval)

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 3
Age:60 - 85

1736 Participants Needed

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