Early Detection of Disability and Health Promotion for Community-dwelling Elderly

Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Elderly; Sarcopenia

Treatments: Other: exercise training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03607136

IRB106-75-A-2

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates the effects of exercise intervention on muscle strength and walking speed for the community-dwelling elderly. Half of the participants will receive exercise training, while the other half will maintain their usual activities of daily living.

Full description

Physical inactivity can result in physical frailty and sarcopenia. Physical frailty and sarcopenia are two common and mostly overlapping geriatric conditions, which may cause negative consequences of aging, such as disability, hospitalization and mortality.

Regular physical activity has been suggested to maintain or improve functional capacity and body composition, as well as delay aging process. Nevertheless, inactivity prevalence still significantly increases among older adults, especially those with a disability. One of the probable reasons is that the use of physical activities or exercise interventions is not tailored to the needs and capabilities of the elderly.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age greater than 50 years
• able to follow simple instructions
• willing to participate and sign consent form

Exclusion criteria

• unstable angina or epilepsy
• severe visual deficits
• cognitive dysfunction
• other musculoskeletal conditions that will limit mobility

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

exercise training

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in the exercise training group received a 12-week exercise training.

Treatment:

Other: exercise training

control

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in the control group did not receive any specific training programs instead of maintaining their usual activities of daily living.