The Alzheimer Society Research Portal connects researchers with Canadians looking to participate in research studies. On this website, find active studies that you can participate in to help advance research on dementia.
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- Observational StudyOnline & In-Person
What is this Study about?
The purpose of this study is to get feedback and guidance to create the Nighttime Insomnia Treatment and Education for Canadians with Alzheimer’s disease (NITE-CAD) program. The NITE-CAD program will be an educational and lifestyle program to support care partners to improve the sleep of their person living with dementia. The NITE-CAD program is based on an American program that improved sleep for persons with dementia. The program includes physical activity, light exposure, and education sessions.
We hope to make create the NITE-CAD program to be feasible to deliver within Canada year-round. The results from this advisory group will be used to inform a future pilot study testing the feasibility of the NITE-CAD program.
Participants will receive a remuneration of $20, in the form an electronic money gift card for the retailer of their choice (e.g., Shoppers, Amazon, Indigo, etc.) per meeting and/or reviewed feedback in recognition of their time and contributions.
Eligibility Criteria
(1) Able to speak and understand English
(2A) Are a caregiver for a person with dementia with sleep difficulties.
OR
(2B) Self-identify as a persons with dementia, who is currently or has previously experience sleep difficulties.
Recruitment End Date
- Observational StudyOnline
What is this Study about?
This is a Canada-wide web-based survey of caregivers and healthcare providers of people with diagnoses of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and related disorders. The online survey, which is available in English and French, explores the caregivers' and healthcare providers' experiences, needs, opinions, and burdens with regards to providing care to patients living with a diagnosis of FTD across Canada. The survey has been developed by a team of researchers with clinical expertise in diagnosing and treating patients with FTD and related disorders.
The survey is available at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Canadian-Survey-on-FTD-and-Related-Disorders and will be open from July 1st, 2023, to June 30, 2024 (12 months).
Eligibility Criteria
You are eligible to complete this survey if you are 18 years of age or older and are either:
(1) A caregiver, currently providing care or have provided care recently, within the past year, to a person with a diagnosis of FTD and related disorders. This does not include formal caregivers that provide paid-care, private care services, community funded care services.
(2) A healthcare provider currently working in a primary care clinic and/or in a specialized clinic (e.g., cognitive and movement disorders clinics, memory clinic, etc.) where patients with a diagnosis of FTD and related disorders are assessed and followed clinically. This includes: physicians, nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, neuropsychologists, physiotherapist, etc.
Recruitment End Date
- Observational StudyIn-Person
What is this Study about?
Aim – To determine how continued education and adult learning classes affects brain health and cognitive processing in older adults.
How the information gathered will be used – The results of this study may inform how structural and functional changes lead to the cognitive decline some individuals experience with age and the effect of learning and adult education on cognitive performance in older adults experiencing mild cognitive impairment.
Eligibility Criteria
You are eligible to participate if you are:
(1) Aged 60-80 years old,
(2) Live in your own home,
(3) Feel your memory ability has declined in the last 5 years, and
(4) Read, write and speak English.
Recruitment End Date
- Observational StudyOnline
What is this Study about?
The purpose of this research is to re-imagine and disseminate through documentary film what compassionate, relational end-of-life (EOL) care looks like from the perspectives of diverse people living with dementia, their care partners, and healthcare professionals.
In phase one of the study we will explore understandings of relational end of life care from diverse perspectives using online research conversations.
Eligibility Criteria
You are eligible to participate if you...
Live in Canada
Are a Canadian citizen or permanent resident
Have a diagnosis of dementia, are a family member or a bereaved family member (within the last year) of a person living with dementia, or are a professional who works directly with people living with dementia or in palliative care
Are able to speak English
Recruitment End Date
- Observational StudyOnline & In-Person
What is this Study about?
The purpose of this study is to assess whether a virtually-delivered healthy lifestyle intervention (over Zoom) is feasible for individuals who feel that their memory or thinking is declining.
Eligibility Criteria
-Are between the age of 65-85
-Are concerned about your memory and other thinking abilities
-Have access to internet at home
-Are a resident of Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, or Quebec
Recruitment End Date
- Clinical TrialIn-Person
What is this Study about?
This Phase 2 study aims to study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of study treatment in paticipants with Mild Cognitive Impairment Due to Alzheimer's Disease or Mild Alzheimer's Disease Dementia
Eligibility Criteria
Age 50 - 80
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or mild dementia due to Alzheimer's diseaseRecruitment End Date
- Clinical TrialIn-Person
What is this Study about?
The primary objective of this study is to verify the clinical benefit of monthly doses of aducanumab in slowing cognitive and functional impairment as measured by changes in the Clinical Dementia Rating Scale Sum of Boxes (CDR-SB) score as compared with placebo in participants with early Alzheimer's disease.
Eligibility Criteria
Age 60 - 85
Must have a study partner
Recruitment End Date
- Observational StudyOnline & In-Person
What is this Study about?
We are inviting adults 55+ and care partners of people living with dementia to participate in an offering of a six-session culinary nutrition education program. All program participants are invited to take part in an optional research study examining their experiences and outcomes associated with their program participation, but research participation is entirely voluntary.
Eligibility Criteria
Live in Saskatchewan (priority will be given to participants living in communities within a 150 km radius of Yorkton,SK)
- Are either 55 or over OR a care partner of a person living with dementia
Recruitment End Date
- Observational StudyIn-Person
What is this Study about?
The purpose of this study is to see how signals from the body, and awareness of those signals, influence cognition in healthy aging and amnestic mild cognitive impairment. The data used from this study will be used for scientific publications and conference presentations. Participants will also be asked if they are willing to have their deidentified data shared for the benefit of open science.
Eligibility Criteria
You are eligible to participate if you are between the ages of 60-85, are free from major medical, neurological, or psychiatric conditions affecting cognition or cardiac health, are fluent in English, and have normal or corrected-to-normal vision.
Recruitment End Date
Alzheimer Society of Canada
20 Eglinton Avenue West, 16th Floor
Toronto, Ontario M4R 1K8
Information and Referral Line: 1-855-705-4636
Email: [email protected]
Charity registration number: 11878 4925 RR0001
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