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Promoting Movement in Older Adults in the Community

NCT04044846 · Status: WITHDRAWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL

Last updated 2022-08-05

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Summary

It is well known that exercise is great medicine, however, for frail older adults who are often homebound and require assistance with personal care, there are gaps in both prescribing this "medicine" and in filling the prescription. The investigators will uncover and address the barriers that prevent frail older adults from increasing their level of physical activity. With input from frail older adults, caregivers, and healthcare providers, the investigators will create a free, easy to use, home-based program that incorporates physical activity such as gentle stretches and range of motion exercises when personal care is being provided. This innovation will add great value to the type of care that is being provided to homebound frail older adults. Incorporating physical activity as part of the care provided offers a unique opportunity for homebound frail older adults to move more, and improve their well-being.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Physical activity program for homebound older adults faciliated by Personal Support Workers

The intervention is an evidence- informed, theory-driven mobility intervention for community-dwelling OAs who are moderately and severely frail according to the clinical frailty scale (Rockwood et al., 2005). The intervention, entitled Promoting Movement in OAs (ProMO), will be implementable with frail OAs in partnership with any care provider in the home. Investigators will focus the study on the two main providers of care- personal support workers (PSWs) and family caregivers. OAs, PSWs, and caregivers will co-create ProMO with us. ProMO will be distinct from existing home-based exercise programs (Johnson et al., 2003) (Giangregorio et al., 2018) because it will optimize natural opportunities for mobilization during care (e.g., bathing and dressing) and will be embedded in facilitated activities of daily living.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Regional Geriatric Program of Toronto

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
55 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-10-07
Primary Completion
2022-02-28
Completion
2022-02-28

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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