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Pilot Project: Community Health Assessment Program Through Emergency Medical Services

NCT02772263 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 79

Last updated 2016-05-13

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Older adults living in subsidized housing report poorer health. Their low income and age make it harder for them to use community services. Many older adults have heart disease and diabetes, which lead to frequent emergency calls and hospital admissions. To decrease the costs of treating heart disease and diabetes through emergency and hospitalization, improved screening and health education is needed. The Community Health Assessment Program through Emergency Medical Services (CHAP-EMS) program will take place in communal areas within housing buildings of older adults and deliver a heart disease, diabetes, and falls risk check-up with health education. This is expected to improve the health of older adults leading to fewer emergency calls and hospital visits.

Paramedics on modified duties (e.g. injured) will conduct weekly, one-on-one drop-in sessions for seniors in a common area of one subsidized apartment building in Hamilton, Ontario.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

CHAP-EMS

The CHAP-EMS program is a low cost community program that is designed to assess community dwelling seniors for lifestyle risk factors that may impact their health and well-being and to provide targeted education to address the pertinent risk factors. Each participant is guided through a structured health-risk assessment focused on diabetes, cardiovascular disease and other potential health issues. The assessment is conducted by a trained paramedic in a common area within the community housing building. Data gathered are used to develop individualized action plans concerning health-risk reduction, to direct participants to local health activities or resources, educate on promoting health and to transmit this information to a participants' family physician.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Gina Agarwal · McMaster University

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-11-30
Primary Completion
2014-12-31
Completion
2014-12-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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