A digital health home intervention for people within the Alzheimer's disease continuum: results from the Ability-TelerehABILITation pilot randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

This study tested the efficacy of digital-health home intervention for people within the Alzheimer's disease (AD)-continuum.

Methods

Thirty people within the AD continuum were randomly assigned to a telerehabilitation (ABILITY; 6 males, M_age=78.2 ± 3.95) or treatment as usual (TAU; 8 males, M_age=77.13 ± 6.38), performing cognitive and physical activities at home for six weeks. The ABILITY intervention additionally included a digital platform enabling communication between the hospital and the patient's home. Efficiency, such as adherence, perceived fit of demands and skills, usability, and effectiveness measures, including neuropsychological level, neuropsychiatric symptoms, and autonomy in daily living, were collected before (T0), after the tre

SUBMITTER: Rossetto F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10030155 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature