Tango for Alzheimer's Disease Patients' Caregivers

Recruiting

Trial ID: NCT03269149

Age - 45 Years-65 Years Gender - Female Accepting Healthy Volunteers - No

Purpose

The goal of the project is to determine the extent to which indices of inflammatory biomarkers, cognition and mood, are influenced by a partnered, dance-based intervention vs control condition in African American (AA) female family caregivers, at high risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

Official Title

Effects of Adapted Tango on African-American Women Caregivers of Alzheimer's Disease Patients

Stanford Investigator(s)

Sharon Sha, MD, MS
Sharon Sha, MD, MS

Clinical Professor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences

Eligibility


Inclusion Criteria:

   - Women family caregivers from the Emory ADRC and Dr. Wharton's studies of Alzheimer's
   disease (AD) caregivers

   - Parental diagnosis 'probable AD'

   - African-American

   - 45-65 years of age

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Intervention(s):

other: Adapted Tango Dance

behavioral: Educational lectures

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Contact Information

Stanford University
School of Medicine
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Stanford, CA 94305

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