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Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment - Can it Improve Quality of Life

Ö

Örebro County Council

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Quality of Life

Treatments

Other: Experimental: Optimization of treatment

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01925105
AFC-162

Details and patient eligibility

About

Like most developed countries the population of Sweden is getting older and consequently the number of individuals with chronic diseases will be an increasing challenge for its healthcare system. To improve care of the frail elderly, wards with a coordinated multidisciplinary team and multidisciplinary mobile teams were established several years ago. Treatment and follow up is planned in accordance to the patients' medical, psychological and functional capabilities (Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment = CGA). There are to our knowledge only few studies concerning CGA applicable to Swedish conditions. We plan to conduct a Swedish study that evaluates if care and treatment with a modified CGA-model in an outpatient setting can improve quality of life for frail older people.

Enrollment

220 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

65+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Age ≥65 years
  • Live in own home
  • Reason to believe that the health condition is not optimal or could be optimized
  • Meet at least 2/6 of the following criteria: cognitive impairment, general tiredness or dyspnea, have fallen often/afraid to fall, need help with activities of daily living, hospital care ≥3 times within the last 12 months, care problems at home

Exclusion criteria

  • Psychosis
  • Not understand the Swedish language

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Single Group Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

220 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Optimization of treatment
Experimental group
Description:
Optimization of treatment of diseases and symptoms
Treatment:
Other: Experimental: Optimization of treatment
Control
Placebo Comparator group
Description:
Treatment as usual

Trial contacts and locations

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