Post-acute Multicomponent Frailty Intervention (FIT)

Hebrew SeniorLife

Status: Completed

Conditions: Frailty

Treatments: Other: Multicomponent (Exercise + Protein Supplementation)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05906446

Pro00068129

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal is to test feasibility of a frailty intervention, including exercises and nutritional supplementation.

Full description

The frailty intervention includes frequent short exercise sessions incorporating balance, resistance training, and walking to accommodate diminished endurance, with synergistic protein and nutritional supplementation, delivered on top of usual care in the post-acute Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) setting. There is no control group.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Community-dwelling before hospitalization
• Age ≥ 65 years
• Admitted to SNF directly from inpatient hospitalization
• English speaking
• Mild Frailty or worse, as measured by a Clinical Frailty Scale

Exclusion criteria

• Discharged from Emergency Department
• Non-community discharge plan on admission (e.g. plan to discharge to hospice)
• Nothing per oral (NPO) dietary status
• Presence of any feeding tube
• Chronic kidney disease stage IV or worse
• Clinician refusal
• Inability or refusal to consume intervention products (e.g. allergies to protein supplement)
• Inability to consent to study procedures

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 1 patient group

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Regular exercise sessions incorporating balance, resistance training, and walking to accommodate diminished endurance, with synergistic protein and nutritional supplementation

Treatment:

Other: Multicomponent (Exercise + Protein Supplementation)