The Sonnet Study

What is the Sonnet Study?

Social connection is fundamental to person-centred care in long-term care homes. Yet, the development and implementation of psychometrically robust measures of social connection is limited, particularly for people living with dementia.

Social connection in long-term care home residents (called SONNET Study) was created to improve measurement of this person-centred outcome by evaluating existing measures and develop a new validated measurement approach.

Study Registrations

Prospero - "Systematic review of measures of social connection used in long-term care home research"

ClinicalTrials.gov - "SOcial coNNEction in Long-Term Care Home Residents (SONNET)"

Funding

This work is supported by an Advancing Research on Care and Outcome Measurement (ARCOM) grant from the Alzheimer's Association and Brain Canada, in collaboration with LINC-AD (Leveraging an Interdisciplinary Consortium to Improve Care and Outcomes for Persons living with Alzheimer’s and Dementia).