ALIGN for Older Adults With Cancer in SNFs
120
about 3.4 years
18–98
1 site in CO
What this study is about
Researchers are testing if a palliative care intervention called ALIGN can be delivered to older adults with advanced cancer who are discharged from the hospital to a skilled nursing facility. The trial will assess whether this intervention can be successfully provided and how caregivers can best make medical decisions for loved ones when they cannot do so themselves.
Simplified from trial records by PatientMatch.
What you may be asked to do
- 1.Assessing and Listening to Individual Goals and Needs (ALIGN)
Participation Burden
What's physically and logistically required of participants.
Requires travel to a study site
How treatment is administered
You may get a placebo/standard care, and you won't know which.
Extracted study details
Pulled from the trial record to show what is being tested and what the study is measuring.
Secondary: Assessing Changes in hospice length of stay, Change in quality of life as assessed by the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy - Palliative Care (FACIT-PAL-14)