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Growing Old at Home

NCT00644826 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 336

Last updated 2010-06-03

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether preventive home visits for people aged 80 and over are effective in the prevention of nursing home admission in Germany.

Conditions

  • Aging

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

preventive home visit

A multidimensional geriatric assessment within the dimensions: cognition, health related functioning, risk of falling, nutritional status, social situation, economic situation, mood. Two more home visits: (1) home counseling visit 2-3 weeks after assessment (2) booster session 1 month after home counseling visit

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • German Federal Ministry of Education and Research

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Johann Behrens, PhD · Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

  • Steffi Riedel-Heller, MD · Universität Leipzig

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-09-30
Primary Completion
2010-03-31
Completion
2010-03-31

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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