Promoting Community Mobility for Wellness in Older Adults in Urban Environments

Kean University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Other: Let's Go Community Mobility Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02916758

Kean-1001

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates the program outcomes of the Let's Go program. The standardized community mobility program employs multi-modal group and individual sessions to facilitate wellness in older adults.

Full description

This study examines the outcomes of Let's Go, a standardized community mobility program which employs group and individual sessions of education, peer interaction, engagement in meaningful occupations, and self-reflections to help individuals understand the importance of community participation and its relationship to well-being. Program outcomes explored include increased confidence in community mobility, increased autonomy outdoors, social life and relationships, frequency of community trips, and decreased social isolation.

Enrollment: 52 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 55+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Community dwelling individual
2. Report desire to learn about community mobility options
3. Able to participate in group education sessions (
4. Able to attend during a 45 minute session
5. Independent mobility in community with or without an assistive device.

Exclusion criteria

1. Individual lives in Long Term Care facility
2. Aphasia
3. Individual has impaired cognition demonstrated by MoCA exam score ≤ 17
4. Individual is unable to stay awake for entire group session
5. Individual acts out (yelling, monopolizes, motor restlessness or agitation) in group setting.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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52 participants in 1 patient group

Let's Go Community Mobility Program

Experimental group

Description:

Participation in 4 week program

Treatment:

Other: Let's Go Community Mobility Program