Residential Care Transition Module (RCTM), [United States], 2016-2021

Emerging research on family caregiving and institutionalization has emphasized that families do not disengage from care responsibilities following a relative's admission to residential long-term care settings. The Residential Care Transition Module (RCTM) provided 6 formal sessions of consultation (one-to-one and family sessions) over a 4-month period to those family caregivers who had admitted a cognitively impaired relative to a residential long-term care (RLTC) setting (nursing home, assisted living memory care unit). The mixed method, randomized controlled trial of RCTM aimed to decrease family caregivers' emotional and psychological distress, placement-related strain, and increase relative's transitions back to the community. The RCTM is a psychosocial intervention designed for families following RLTC placement to help families better navigate the residential care transitions of relatives with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia.<br><br>This longitudinal dataset was self-reported by caregivers about themselves and their care recipients over a 12-month period. <br><br>The data include 133 variables and 240 cases.<br><br>Demographic variables in this data file include participant treatment/control group assignment, age, gender, race, marital status, education, income, employment status, and relationship to the care recipient. Additionally, it includes care recipient age, gender, race, marital status, education, income, Medicaid status, type of residence, dichotomous dementia diagnosis, and time since placement in long-term care. <br><br>Besides the summary scores of the scales described later, the data also include information on caregiver general health, sleep, emotional difficulties, and bereavement status. It also provides information on caregiver and care recipient adjustment to residential long-term care and the amount and length of typical visits by the caregiver to the care recipient. The number and average length of intervention and ad hoc sessions are included as well.<br>