This project adapts a novel activity-based companion care model, the Making Engagement Meaningful through Organized Routine Interaction (MEMORI) Corps intervention, for a virtual delivery format, and then implements the intervention in a pilot, two-arm, randomized controlled trial to evaluate intervention acceptability, feasibility, and preliminary efficacy versus an augmented waitlist control. MEMORI Corps is a companion care model that provides regular companionship and personalized activities to community-living persons with dementia (PWD) delivered by trained volunteer Companion Guides 55 years of age or older. Program goals are to reduce social isolation and improve health and well-being for PWD, reduce burden and provide support to family CGs, as well as provide health benefits and opportunities for meaningful engagement for older volunteer Companion Guides.
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Change in Neuropsychiatric Symptoms as Assessed by Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Score
Timeframe: Baseline - 12 weeks
Change in Quality of Life as Assessed by the Quality of Life in Alzheimer's Disease (QOL-AD) Tool
Timeframe: Baseline - 12 weeks
Change in Subjective Caregiver Burden as Assessed by the Zarit Burden Inventory-Short Form
Timeframe: Baseline - 12 weeks
Change in Depressive Symptoms in Caregivers as Assessed by The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) - 8
Timeframe: Baseline - 12 weeks
Change in Perceived Loneliness as Measured by UCLA 3 Loneliness Scale
Timeframe: Baseline - 12 weeks
Change in Perceived Loneliness for Caregiver as Measured by UCLA 3 Loneliness Scale
Timeframe: Baseline - 12 weeks
Program Satisfaction and Perceived Impact Survey
Timeframe: 12-weeks post intervention
Change in Perceived Impact of Leisure Activities as Measured by Leisure Activity Participation Impact Scale
Timeframe: Baseline - 12 weeks