Official Title: “Treatment of Late Life Compulsive Hoarding”
Study Primary Completion Date: October 2015
-The purpose of this investigation is to examine treatment outcome of a new intervention for hoarding in older adults compared to standard case management for hoarding. The new intervention combines exposure therapy and cognitive remediation.
Detailed Clinical Trial Description
Research has shown that compulsive hoarding (CH) is debilitating chronic and progressive condition that has significant public health implications. Older adults represent the largest group of CH suffers due to increasing severity with age. Often, Veterans with CH are seen in the VA system and the status of their hoarding is never assessed. Providers are treating patients for other health and social service issues yet missing an important source of disability and distress. This insidious, often undetected condition leads to greater medical and social disability and is costly to the VA system as patients continue to decompensate. When CH is even detected, patients in the VA receive indefinite case management and inadequate treatment. The cases we know about have caused significant financial burden to our system. Most importantly, CH causes significant impairment and poor quality of life for our Veterans, particularly our older Veterans. Unfortunately, we know nothing about how to treat late life CH. Nor do we know how neurocognitive features impact treatment response, which we strongly suspect influence treatment outcome. CH is a potentially treatable source of disability in the VA system – one that the VA must research and treat. This study represents the first randomized controlled trial of a novel intervention for the treatment of CH in older Veterans…Read more at ClinicalTrialsFeeds.org
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