Digital helper tools for older adults managing their health care, including mild cognitive impairment
Tests digital assistant tools for health tasks in older adults with mild cognitive impairment.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Weill Medical College of Cornell University
- Where
- Champaign, New York, and Tallahassee, United StatesSee the 3 sites
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Digital Tools to Support Healthcare Decision Making
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 120 people, planned
- Started
- 4 May 2026
- Expected to end
- 31 May 2027
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets an existing treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- Project 3, Phase 2: Clinical Trial
- Record updated
- 8 July 2026
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for adults aged 60 or older, with or without mild cognitive impairment (mild memory and thinking problems), who can use the internet. It tests digital tools that help with health-management tasks such as using Medicare.gov.
- Age
- 60 years or older
- Sex
- All sexes
- Disease stage
- People with mild cognitive impairment (TICS-m score between 22-37) or normal thinking (TICS-m score >37) can join.
- Biomarker or test result
- TICS-m memory and thinking test score of 22 or higher.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Blindness or deafness (unable to do a phone screening because of hearing problems)
- Terminal illness
- Severe movement problems, such as severe tremors or disabling arthritis in the hands
- TICS-m score below 22
- Took part in Phase 1 of this study, or in a study about Medicare experience or searching for Medicare information
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Some internet proficiency is required; participants will need to answer Yes to the following:
- Can you use the Internet to access a website, for example, amazon.com?
- Can you use search engines like Google to search for information on the Internet?
- English speaking
- 6th grade literacy
- Aged 60 or older
- TICS-m with a score between 22-37 for MCI and >37 for normal
- Able to read from a newspaper
Who cannot take part
- terminal illness
- blindness
- deafness (inability to engage in telephone screening due to hearing difficulties)
- severe motor impairments (e.g., severe tremors or debilitating arthritis in the hands),
- TICS-m <22
- All Phase 1 study participants (interview and observational study): have you ever participated in a study that interviewed you about your experience with Medicare or asked you to search for Medicare information?
Where in United States
- University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignChampaign, United StatesContact: Wendy Rogers, PhDTaking people
- Weill Cornell MedicineNew York, United StatesContact: Chelsie Burchett, PhDTaking people
- Florida State UniversityTallahassee, United StatesContact: Chelsie Burchett, PhDNo longer taking part
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
The goal for this project is to support the cognitive components of older adults' health-management activities through development of digital assistant technology tools tailored to three exemplar healthcare management task activities: accessing support services, managing healthcare finances, and using the health-management tools provided by Medicare.gov. This project will leverage the machine-intelligence expertise of our collaborators and our experience in developing and evaluating technologies for supporting the health and wellbeing needs of older adults to harness technology to provide cognitive support to aging adults, including those with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and lower SES.
The 2 groups in the trial
- Sidekick ConditionTreatment being tested
Participants will be given a brief introduction to Large Language Models, how they can be used to solve queries, and introduced to Sidekick. Some simple example queries will be used to demonstrate its use, how to construct prompts, and to illustrate the nature of Sidekick's responses. Participants will also be instructed about different degrees of specificity of information and other customization features of Sidekick and how to use responses as a springboard for iterative prompting (sequential queries).
Treatment: Project 3, Phase 2: Clinical Trial
- Usual-Tool Control ConditionExisting treatment, for comparison
Participants will be asked to open the medicare.gov website. They will be shown the basic structure of the homepage and the distinctions between tabs on the website. Examples of information that can be obtained from these different tabs will be demonstrated. Navigation between different parts of the website will also be demonstrated.
Treatment: Project 3, Phase 2: Clinical Trial
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Technology Tools for Cognitive Support for Health Management Activities for Aging Adults With and Without Mild Cognitive Impairment (Research Project 3)
- Plain-language title
- Digital helper tools for older adults managing their health care, including mild cognitive impairmentGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 15 November 2026.
- Record updated
- 8 July 2026