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Clinical and Medico-economic Evaluation of Taken Care Associating Nutritional Support and Adapted Physical Activity for Malnourished, or at Risk of Undernutrition, Elderly People on Discharge From Hospital

NCT03979560 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 47

Last updated 2023-02-02

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Summary

In the hospital, one out of every two elderly people is malnourished. This condition of undernutrition generally worsens during hospitalization, where the effects of polypathology and psychological distress are added. Muscle loss due to inadequate dietary intake, hypermetabolism and immobilization results in the onset or worsening of mobility disorders and functional decline. After hospitalization, 30-50% of elderly people hospitalized in emergency in medical departments have lost autonomy in daily life. Nutritional management and adaptive physical activity (APA) could have synergistic action to improve the nutritional status and mobility of elderly patients. The short duration of the average stay the acute geriatric units (10-15 days) is not enough to renew, nor to re-educate patients. It seems important to continue these actions at home. The implementation of programs combining nutrition and adapted physical activity (APA) at the hospital exit has not been studied to date. We formulate the hypothesis that in elderly people who are malnourished or at risk of undernutrition, after hospitalization, a personalized home intervention combining nutritional advice and appropriate physical activity will limit their loss of autonomy.

Conditions

  • Under-nutrition or Risk of Undernutrition

Interventions

OTHER

Intervention

Nutritional support in seven sessions spread over three months, combined with an adapted physical activity intervention (APA), also at a frequency of seven sessions spread over three months, or fourteen home sessions.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Gérond'if

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-06-28
Primary Completion
2021-06-17
Completion
2021-12-23

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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