NCT05866094Completed
nuTritiOn and deMentia AT hOme (TOMATO)
Feasibility Study of an Intervention to Provide Nutritional Care for People Living With Dementia at Home
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 19 Sept 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The purpose of this study is to refine, implement and assess the acceptability and feasibility of an existing nutrition intervention applied to people living with dementia receiving home care.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 139 (actual)
- First submitted
- 24 Apr 2023
- Start date
- 12 Apr 2023
- Primary completion date
- 31 Dec 2024
- Lead sponsor
- Bournemouth University
- Diseases
- Alzheimer disease
- NCT number
- NCT05866094
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 139
- From 12 Apr 2023 to the primary completion date, 31 Dec 2024
- 5 sites 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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Other illness
- People with Dementia
- have not recently (in last 6-months) provided care for someone with dementia at risk of/experiencing malnutrition.
Other
- Who are at end of life or on an end-of-life care pathway.
- Permanently cared for in bed.
- Do not have an informal caregiver.
- having specialist nutritional support e.g., feeding via tube.
- Carers and Home Care Workers
- not able to communicate fluently enough in English or provide informed consent
Who the study is looking for
- People with Dementia
- formal diagnosis or functional symptoms associated with probable dementia (assessed by a senior home care worker using the FAST).
- have family member/friend providing care/support and resident in the same house as the person with dementia or living close by.
- be currently or have recently (in last 6-months) been at risk of/experienced malnutrition in receipt of home care services.
- \- For interviews, people with dementia will
- be able to communicate fluently enough in English or provide informed consent with the assistance of a translator or family member to participate.
- be able to recall their experiences of malnutrition and carer/home care worker responses well enough to discuss.
- Carers and Home Care Workers
- currently or have recently (in last 6-months) provided care for someone with dementia at risk of/experiencing malnutrition.
- able to communicate fluently enough in English or provide informed consent with the assistance of a translator or family member to participate.
Criteria the registry did not label
- Participants: People with dementia, their relatives, and home care workers
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (5)
Sites in registry order. Save your city in your profile to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Participating Home Care Organisation Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Greater London | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| Participating Home Care Organisation Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | North West Regions | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| Participating Home Care Organisations Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | South West | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| Participating Home Care Organisation Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | West Midlands | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| Participating Home Care Organisation Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Yorkshire | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
Related publications
- An intervention to provide nutritional care for people living with dementia at home receiving home care (TOMATO): study protocol for a single-arm feasibility study.Pilot Feasibility Stud · 2025 · PMID 41272684
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