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Virtual Reality for Caregiver Assembly, Relief, Empowerment, and Support (VR-CARES)
Sponsor: Rendever, Inc.
Summary
The VR-CARES project is an innovative, collaborative effort that invites dementia care professionals into the design process of a virtual reality platform seeking to mitigate their work-related burden and social isolation by cultivating a virtual community of support. The co-created, caregiver-specific VR platform will serve as a safe, communal space where caregivers can remotely connect with their peers, share fun experiences together, access support, learn self-care and build resilience within a supportive virtual network to enhance their social and mental health and job satisfaction. Central to VR-CARES in the principle of user-led innovation, ensuring that the technology not only serves but is informed and successfully adopted by the very individuals it intends to benefit, an important standard for empathetic and inclusive technology in healthcare.
Official title: VR-CARES: Feasibility of Virtual Reality for Caregiver Assembly, Relief, Empowerment, and Support to Improve Social Connection, Health, and At-home Dementia Care
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
30
Start Date
2026-02
Completion Date
2026-08
Last Updated
2026-02-24
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Interventions
Rendever VR Social Engagement Platform
Participants will be trained how to use Rendever's core VR platform (Engage) and encouraged to use the core social platform independently and with their clients for \~4-8 weeks to build rapport and engage their clients doing fun activities, traveling, visiting personally important places to each other in the VR platform.
VR-CARES Platform
Participants will use Rendever's newly designed VR-CARES support platform, developed with insights from the first focus group, for 8 weeks. Participants engage with other direct care workers in a virtual community support setting intended to provide supportive resources and content for group social activities and improve wellbeing and job satisfaction for direct care workers.
Locations (5)
Rendever, Inc.
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Right at Home
Brighton, Michigan, United States
Right at Home
East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Right at Home
Novi, Michigan, United States
Right at Home
Owosso, Michigan, United States