Keeping Active in Residential Elderly (KARE)

University of Birmingham

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Physical Activity

Frailty

Frail Elderly Syndrome

Treatments

Other: HUR equipment resistance training intervention

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03141879

ERN_16-1438

Details and patient eligibility

About

This trial will take the form of a feasibility study; designed to assess the feasibility of a proposed future clinical trial in this setting. This proposed future clinical trial is proposed to assess the impact of physical activity, in the form of specialised chair based physical activity intervention, on the physiological, psychological, cognitive, social and emotional health, and functional capacity of geriatric populations with pre-existing frailty within a residential care setting; recognising health as a holistic concept incorporating a multitude of inter-related dimensions. This feasibility study is single-centre (taking place at the Olivet Christadelphian care home, 17 Sherbourne Road, Acocks Green, Birmingham, United Kingdom ).

Enrollment

48 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

65+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Residents within the Olivet Christadelphian care home, 17 Sherbourne Road, Acocks Green, Birmingham, United Kingdom
≥ 65 years of age
Frail according to the Fried Frailty criteria: meeting at least three of the five characteristics of frailty (Fried et al. 2001)
Have the capacity to speak and read in English

Exclusion criteria

Currently taking part in any other clinical trial which could potentially have an impact upon or influences the findings of the current study
Currently terminally ill with life expectancy which is less than the duration of the follow-up of the study
Severe sensory impairment which would profoundly impact on their capacity to undergo the interventions, even once appropriate adaptations have been made.