Community Areas of Sustainable Care and Dementia Excellence
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Evaluating the Community Areas of Sustainable Care and Dementia Excellence (CASCADE) Model of Care
IRAS ID
269954
Contact name
Anne Martin
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Canterbury Christ Church University
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
EudraCT, 2019-002879-34 ; Universal Trial Number, U1111-1237-2443
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 5 months, 31 days
Research summary
Continuous improvements in healthcare have resulted in people living longer and healthier. Older people however are at a higher risk of developing dementia, with nearly 9.9 million new cases each year worldwide. The overall associated costs for health and social dementia care exceed healthcare costs for cancer, stroke, alcohol abuse, heart disease, osteoporosis and depression combined . Interreg 2 Seas Mers Zeeën funded a four years project involving ten cross boarder partners to co-create a social innovation to make local services more efficient and effective in addressing collective dementia care challenges in the 2 Seas region.
The Areas of Sustainable Care and Dementia Excellence (CASCADE) project objective is to develop and embed a financially sustainable model of integrated dementia care in the community. The CASCADE model collectively developed with project partners and people living with dementia is a person-centred and strengths-based approach promoting holistic personalised dementia care in the community for safe meaningful independent living and positive public perceptions. People living with dementia in this study is used to include people with dementia and informal carers and or families. The 12 months evaluation study will aim to establish the cost effectiveness of CASCADE ways of working plus the impact of the care model on the wellbeing of staff and people living with dementia. This will be achieved through using validated tools to collect structured information from people with a formal dementia diagnosis, informal carers and staff. We will collect data at three time points including pre-intervention and two six monthly follow up time points for residents in long term care; and two weekly follow up time points for short term or respite care residents. The study will involve approximately 200 people living with dementia and about 60 staff delivering care tailored to the CASCADE model in the UK.
REC name
East of England - Essex Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
19/EE/0314
Date of REC Opinion
16 Jan 2020
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion