Clinical Trials

The study population will include primarily elderly African American individuals – men and women – with mild cognitive impairment and dementia and their caregivers of any gender and New Town community members who agree to participate in an intervention related to end-of-life care planning.  Community members involved in the study will work with the study team to develop and implement the intervention.  The study is designed to assess the impact of a refined advanced care planning intervention on knowledge about advance care planning and readiness to complete an advance directive in an effort to increase end-of-life care planning in African Americans with dementia and their caregivers.  In order to accomplish this, human subjects within the African American community are necessary to assist with the study design and the implementation of the intervention.

The study aims to recruit at least 50 African Americans in the New Town Community who have self-reported mild cognitive impairment or dementia and their caregivers.  Recruitment of these participants will be through IRB-approved procedures and flyers, with distribution through the New Town Community by community members and study staff who have participated in the development of the program.