NCT05159557Completed
In-Home Technology for Caregivers of People With Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment: Wearables
Commercializing In-Home Supportive Technology for Dementia Caregivers
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 17 Sept 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study aims to develop, evaluate, and commercialize an in-home supportive technology that is designed to alleviate anxiety, burden, and loneliness in spousal and familial caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer's disease, other dementias, or mild cognitive impairment by integrating wearable devices (e.g., Apple Watches).
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 63 (actual)
- First submitted
- 2 Dec 2021
- Start date
- 22 Aug 2022
- Primary completion date
- 25 Mar 2024
- Lead sponsor
- University of California, Berkeley
- Diseases
- Alzheimer disease
- NCT number
- NCT05159557
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 63
- From 22 Aug 2022 to the primary completion date, 25 Mar 2024
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Caregivers providing care for individuals who use a medication likely to affect central nervous system functions adversely
Other illness
- Caregivers providing care for individuals with known non-neurodegenerative conditions affecting behavior and cognition
- Caregivers providing care for individuals with longstanding Axis I psychiatric disorder Caregivers providing care for individuals with metabolic disorder or major organ dysfunction
- Caregivers providing care for individuals with alcohol abuse or dependence (within 5 years of dementia onset)
- Caregivers providing care for individuals with significant systemic medical illness
Other
- Caregivers providing care for individuals with head trauma with loss of consciousness greater than 30 minutes
- Caregivers providing care for individuals with contraindications to MRI imaging
- Caregivers providing care for individuals with large confluent white matter lesions
Who the study is looking for
- Caregivers are fluent/literate in English
- Caregivers currently reside in the United States with spouse/family member who has received a medical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, other dementia, or mild cognitive impairment
- Caregivers primarily use a smartphone (e.g., iPhone, Android)
- Caregivers have internet and WiFi service
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of California, Berkeley Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Berkeley | United States | Unknown status |
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