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Implementing Resistance Exercise to Reduce Frailty for Older Adult

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Northwestern University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Sarcopenia

Treatments

Behavioral: Resistance exercise

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02942992
STU00201777

Details and patient eligibility

About

To develop an intervention specifically targeted for these clients who have the frailty syndrome. The Investigators propose to develop an exercise intervention that can reduce frailty in older adults to facilitate their ability to age-in-place. The long-term objective of this work is to develop a package of interventions that can be administered within the existing Medicaid Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Waiver programs. The specific goal of this proposal is to develop a resistance exercise intervention to reduce frailty in older adults receiving long term care services in their home through the Illinois Community Care Program, a HCBS Waiver Program.

Enrollment

126 patients

Sex

All

Ages

65 to 100 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria for Home Care Aides:

  • Employees of Help at Home, with one eligible client

Inclusion criteria for clients:

  • aged 65+ years
  • receive HCA services two or more days per week
  • English-speaking
  • not currently participating in regular exercise as defined as 30 minutes three or more days per week, - - no health problems that contraindicate participation in exercise based on the EASY: Exercise Assessment and Screening for You
  • Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status score > 26

Exclusion criteria for HCAs:

  • no clients who enroll in the study

Exclusion criteria for clients:

  • legally blind, no voluntary extremity movement
  • physician does not provide clearance for participation
  • classified as non-frail based on the SHARE-FI frailty testing
  • Telephone Cognitive Status score < 25.

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

126 participants in 2 patient groups

Control
No Intervention group
Description:
Usual Care Group
Intervention
Other group
Description:
Intervention Group
Treatment:
Behavioral: Resistance exercise

Trial contacts and locations

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