Spitex-SpiTal-Autonomie-Reha-Kraft

Summary

The primary purpose of this study is to test if the STARK comprehensive autonomy health care package improves lower extremity function over time at 6 weeks, 3, 6 and 12 months after hip or pelvis fracture compared to the standard of care.

Conditions

• Osteoporosis
• Frailty
• Hip Fractures

Interventions

OTHER

STARK intervention

The STARK Intervention is a new care concept for hip fracture patients that enable hip fracture patient to return to their home directly after discharge from acute care. The STARK comprehensive autonomy health care package includes following services; * Multidisciplinary collaboration of geriatricians, nurses and Spitex (ambulant nursing service at home) starting already during acute care * Inspection of the environment at the patient's home * Care and autonomy support * Social life support * Secondary prevention strategies: * Home exercise program (3x/weeks) * Protein enriched food preparation (20g whey protein/day) * Support to take vitamin D supplementation (2000 IU/day) * Recommendation and support to eat calcium rich foods * Motivation to be physically active

OTHER

Standard of Care

Standard of Care involves inpatient rehabilitation or home-based or inpatient transitional nursing care

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Spitex Zürich, Switzerland

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• City of Zurich, Switzerland

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• University Hospital, Zürich

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland

  collaborator OTHER

• Ebnet Stiftung, Switzerland

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• University of Zurich

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Heike Bischoff-Ferrari, Prof. · Zentrum Alter und Mobilität

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

DOUBLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

70 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2017-05-05

Primary Completion

2021-08-15

Completion

2021-08-15

Countries

• Switzerland

Study Locations