Compassionate Communities Neighbourhood Program (WECCC-NHB)

McMaster University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Aging; Chronic Disease

Treatments: Behavioral: Quality of Life Assessment; Behavioral: Neighbourhood exchange

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03634163

001-WECCC

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will evaluate a Compassionate Communities-based intervention aimed at reducing social isolation by mobilizing individuals to act on their health and social needs individually, and in collaboration with fellow members of their community. The intervention program includes facilitated building of neighbourhood networks (member benefits include access to practical help, the opportunity to develop meaningful relationships, and community mobilization), and coaching support to work on individualized goal setting and more detailed navigation support and planning.

Full description

The Compassionate Communities intervention is catalyzed by professional facilitators who visit communities with high concentrations of elderly and vulnerable residents, and recruit those who are interested in a project to identify their own health and social needs, assets and priorities; to collectively work to support each other in achieving these; and to implement a neighbourhood exchange to more easily match offers of help to people who need help. The mobilization work starts with the facilitator, who is employed by a community or social service organization, but increasingly draws on the energies of the mobilized initial participants as volunteers who conduct further community outreach in their community, attracting and mobilizing other residents, peers, and neighbouring resources in the work. Participants also plan and implement a broad range of activities identified by the residents as their priorities for neighbourhood building. Participants and their caregivers have the option of receiving more in-depth 1:1 coaching support to work on individualized goal setting, more detailed navigation support or advanced care planning following the sessions.

Enrollment: 1,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Seniors (65 years of age and older)
• people with disabilities
• caregivers of seniors or people with disabilities
• residing in identified buildings/ neighbourhoods where the WECCC Compassionate Communities Neighbourhood program is being launched
• able to communicate in English or interpreter can be arranged

Exclusion criteria

• not able to communicate in English and interpreter cannot be arranged

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,000 participants in 2 patient groups

Immediate

Experimental group

Description:

Quality of Life Assessment plus facilitated implementation of neighbourhood exchange and personal care support

Treatment:

Behavioral: Quality of Life Assessment

Behavioral: Neighbourhood exchange

Delayed

Active Comparator group

Description:

Quality of Life Assessment

Treatment:

Behavioral: Quality of Life Assessment