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ABLE (Arts-Based Exercise Enhancing LongEvity)

NCT03675490 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 25

Last updated 2018-09-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Older adults who are referred to home care physiotherapy often only get to see the physiotherapist three to five times and are expected to continue exercising on their own. We have developed an interactive technology called ABLE that helps older adults do exercise in their homes by making it fun and interactive. We want to see if we can help 25 older adults to exercise with ABLE for three months and if exercising with ABLE for three months changes older adults' strength and balance. A physiotherapist will visit the older adults three times in their homes and show them how to use ABLE and which exercises to do. We will measure older adults' strength and balance before and after using the program and ask them and their family members for feedback about using ABLE. The results of our study will help us decide if we can do a bigger study to test the effect of using ABLE in a larger group of older adults, and to see what effect ABLE might have on strength and balance. The study will also help us incorporate feedback from the older adults and their families to improve ABLE for the next study.

Conditions

  • Aging
  • Fall
  • Muscle Weakness
  • Mobility Limitation

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

ABLE - exercise with interactive technology

Multicomponent exercise with interactive technology - consists of wearable sensors and a screen displaying interaction. When the person does the exercises it produces an arts-based response on the screen (e.g., digital painting).,

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • McMaster Institute for Research on Aging

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Physiotherapy Foundation of Canada

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • McMaster University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Alexandra Papaioannou, MD, MSc · McMaster University

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-10-31
Primary Completion
2019-11-30
Completion
2020-01-31

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