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VA Community Living Centers to Home

NCT02211274 · Status: WITHDRAWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL

Last updated 2020-04-09

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Older adults prefer to live as in the community as long as possible. Creating a standardized treatment planning process that includes assessments of everyday competence and goal-setting techniques to help Veterans move from VA nursing homes back to the community can improve functional health, well-being, and quality of life for older Veterans. Research has shown that 29% of nursing home residents might be able to live safely in the community instead. Currently, VA provides nursing home care to more than 13,000 Veterans across the country, which costs about $3.3 billion a year. It is expensive for VA to provide nursing home care to these inappropriate residents and they are using limited resources that could be given to another Veteran with more urgent needs. The Everyday Competence Assessment and Planning for Community Transitions (ECAP-CT) toolkit will help these Veterans to move back into the community with the services and supports they need based on their individual level of everyday competence.

Conditions

  • Aged
  • Frail Elderly

Interventions

OTHER

Everyday Competence Assessment and Planning for Community Transitions

The Everyday Competence Assessment and Planning for Community Transitions (ECAP-CT) toolkit will allow CLC interdisciplinary team members to 1) assess the Veteran's everyday competence for safe and independent living; 2) develop personally meaningful rehabilitation goals that facilitate successful transition out of the CLC based on everyday competence; and 3) conduct structured treatment planning to support resident goals around transitioning back into the community. By considering everyday competence and goal-setting in this context, Veterans will have optimal P-E fit upon returning to the community, ensuring a successful transition.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Whitney L. Mills, PhD · Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, RI

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-07-01
Primary Completion
2020-02-28
Completion
2020-02-28

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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