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Lifestyle Integrated Functional Exercise for People With Dementia: a Home-based Physical Activity Program

NCT03757806 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 56

Last updated 2022-07-19

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Summary

Physical activity improves cognitive function and the ability to perform activities of daily living in people with dementia and reduces caregivers' burden thus, enhancing quality of life of people with dementia and their caregivers. The wish of most people with dementia, and their caregivers, is to live at their home, for as long as possible. However community-dwelling people with dementia have low levels of physical activity, increasing dependency, which often leads to institutionalization. The Lifestyle Integrated Functional Exercise (LiFE) program has been shown to decrease sedentary activity time and dependency in activities of daily living of older people, however, it has never been implemented in people with dementia. LiFE might be promising as it focuses on establishing new behaviors within selected contexts to stimulate physical activity at home. Therefore, a home-based physical activity program, based on LiFE and involving caregivers, LiFE4D, will be implemented and evaluated in community-dwelling people with dementia.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Experimental group

LiFE4D is an individualised programme, adapted to the participant's needs/preferences. People with Dementia will receive assistance to increase their physical activity multiple times/day in their everyday tasks with the support/supervision of their caregivers. The programme last for 12 weeks, with a lower face tracking over time with the health professional but replaced by caregivers. The intervention includes face-to-face sessions and phone calls. Face-to-face sessions aim to adapt physical activity to everyday tasks, increase tasks frequency and intensity, monitor progress, clarify doubts, motivate and manage expectations. Phone calls aim to monitor motivation/evolution and clarify doubts.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • School of Health, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal (ESS/IPS)

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Aveiro University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Alda S Marques, PhD · School of Health Sciences of the University of Aveiro (ESSUA)

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-12-01
Primary Completion
2020-08-01
Completion
2021-05-01

Countries

  • Portugal

Study Locations

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