NCT07563270Not yet recruiting
GAPcareAD: A Brief Emergency Department Intervention to Address Post-Fall Care Needs of Persons Living With Dementia and Care Partners
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 15 May 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Persons living with dementia (PLWD) are at significantly increased risk for falls, which are the leading cause of emergency department (ED) visits in this population and contribute to serious injuries, functional decline, and caregiver burden. GAPcareAD is an ED-initiated, caregiver-inclusive intervention designed to address fall risk at the point of care. This multi-site trial will compare GAPcareAD (intervention) to usual care for 350 PLWD and caregivers after a fall.
- Status (registry)
- Not yet recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 700 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 10 Apr 2026
- Start date
- 30 Sept 2026
- Primary completion date
- 30 Mar 2029
- Lead sponsor
- University of Colorado, Denver
- Diseases
- Alzheimer disease
- NCT number
- NCT07563270
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 700
- From 30 Sept 2026 to the primary completion date, 30 Mar 2029
- No sites listed in no 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
- Patients who have advanced cancer and/or are in hospice
Other
- Living in a nursing home
- Patients are admitted to the hospital
- Patients have presence of injuries that prevent mobilization (i.e. pelvic or lower extremity fractures)
Who the study is looking for
- Community-dwelling adult (living at home or assisted living) 65 years-old or older presenting to ED after a fall within the last seven days
- Fall not due to syncope or external force (i.e., struck by car,assault, intoxication)
- Fall not due to serious illness (i.e., stroke, acute myocardial infarction)
- Patients have an identified caregiver
- Patient must have known ADRD or score ≥2 on the AD8 Dementia Interview.
- Anticipated to be discharged to home/assisted living/rehabilitation at the time of consent (i.e. not admitted)
- The patient and/or caregiver have a reliable phone number where they can be reached throughout the intervention
Age in the registry: 65 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
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