The Black Immigrant Project
Exploring an Adapted Active Caregiving: Empowering Skills (ACES) Intervention for High-Risk Care Partners
University of Minnesota
150 participants
Mar 1, 2026
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
This stage I trial will examine if the culturally adapted ACES intervention affects cognitive appraisal (self-efficacy and dysfunctional thoughts) and behavioral activation with Black immigrant living with dementia and their care partners over a 1-month and 3-month period.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria12
- Person with dementia:
- Family or self-identified report of dementia/memory loss,
- Score <3 on the Six-item Screener.
- Age 50 or older.
- Ability to communicate in English.
- Identify as a Black immigrant.
- Ability to give verbal assent.
- Black immigrant care partner of persons with AD/ADRD.
- Age 18 or older.
- Ability to communicate in English.
- Identify as a first/second-generation Black immigrant.
- Have had at least 6 months of caregiving (any help or assistance provided to a relative related to dementia/memory loss).
Exclusion Criteria9
- Under age 50.
- Not a Black immigrant.
- Cannot communicate in English.
- Unable to give verbal assent.
- Caregiver:
- Under age 18.
- Not first/second generation Black immigrant.
- Cannot communicate in English.
- Has less than 6 months of caregiving to a relative with dementia/memory loss.
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Interventions
The Active Caregiving: Enhancing Skills intervention was developed in partnership with Black immigrant dementia care partners. It is based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (one type of psychotherapy), and it suggests that a person's behavior and affect are guided by how they structure the world. Through the process of cognitive appraisal (how to evaluate something in your mind) and behavioral activation (how to start a new behavior), the intervention will help the caregiver change their cognitive appraisal (e.g., re-orienting the way they think) and behavioral skills (e.g., changing their behavior or activities) to cope with difficulties in the caregiving process. This group program has six modules that will be offered over weekly sessions through remote technology such as Zoom.
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NCT07546708