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Lead
University of Minnesota
With
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota
The University of Texas at Arlington
Age
Any age
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
You may be eligible if
In keeping with the incorporation of pragmatic design elements, the eligibility criteria of volunteers and persons with AD/ADRD is deliberately lax in order to best reflect LSS-MN "routine practice." Participants must be either a volunteer or client involved in the LSS-MN standard Caregiver \& Companion Program service programs. Programmatic and survey data on the volunteers, clients, and proxies involved will be shared with the UMN team. While all data received may be analyzed (see analysis section below), data analysis is expected to focus on those who meet the following additional criteria:
Volunteers who are listed in the LSS database.
Clients with cognitive concerns (i.e. minor confusion, memory loss, diagnosis for their memory loss, or concerns about cognition) via the LSS-MN surveys and/or the LSS-MN CRM database.
If memory loss is indicated via the database or survey, it will be assumed that the client has memory loss, even if there are discrepancies. Due to the nature of the data, we expect discrepancies to exist and will document other decisions made during analysis.
You may not be if
As data is made available, the UMN research team expects to receive survey data from all the clients and volunteers in LSS-MN Caregiver \& Companion Services programming who complete the surveys, and those included in the LSS database. Since LSS-MN administers surveys to every client and volunteer involved in their LSS-MN Caregiver \& Companion program (as able), data likely will be obtained from individuals who do not meet the memory-specific criteria. However, as needed, UMN may choose to exclude one or more of the following from analysis. Again, the researcher/research staff best judgement will be used when conducting analyses and will document decisions accordingly:
● Clients who do not have memory loss
In addition, any client and volunteer can choose to not complete surveys, so we would not have survey data from those individuals, and may continue with routine attempts at surveying at the next data collection time-point. Missing surveys may be considered during analysis.
Please note: Due to the eligibility criteria for volunteers and clients in the LSS-MN program, we do not anticipate any data for those under 18 years of age.
