The CareWell-programme for Community-dwelling Frail Elderly Persons.

Radboud University Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Overall Functioning; Incremental Cost-effectiveness Ratio

Treatments: Other: The CareWell programme

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01499797

2010/403

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the CareWell-programme on overall functioning of community-dwelling frail elderly persons. Furthermore, the total costs and the cost-effectiveness of the CareWell-programme, in comparison with regular medical care, will be studied.

Enrollment: 536 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 70+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Frail community dwelling elderly patients aged 70 years or above. Frailty is determined with a two-phase screening instrument.

Exclusion criteria

• Non-frail elders
• Patients in palliative or end-of-life stages of disease
• Patients residing in long-term care facilities (care homes and nursing homes)
• Patients already enrolled in specific dementia-related case-management programmes who lack other health-related problems
• Patients not speaking or understanding the Dutch language

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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536 participants in 2 patient groups

regular medical care

No Intervention group

Description:

Identified community dwelling frail elderly people receiving regular medical care in their primary care setting

The CareWell programme

Experimental group

Description:

Identified community dwelling frail elderly people receiving care in line with the CareWell programme

Treatment:

Other: The CareWell programme