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Evaluating Quebec's Red-Cross Intervention

NCT05099042 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 300

Last updated 2024-04-10

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Summary

With the COVID-19 pandemic, elderly people (EP) living at home have seen their health deteriorated, thus increasing their needs in support and care. Indeed, while it was estimated that before the pandemic120 000 unattended living at home EP required care and services (taking bath, access to medication and food, etc.), the number doubled after COVID-19. Therefore, the waiting list for socio-medical services for unattended vulnerable clientele without a family doctor grew from 1300 to 1715 EP in a couple of months during the pandemic. With these numbers, it becomes clear that an intervention is needed. Truly, the Institut National d'Excellence en Santé et Services Sociaux (INESSS) concludes that it was pivotal to first identify the most vulnerable EP and second re-orient them according to their needs.

Thus the principal investigator developed the Évaluation et orientation SOcio-GÉRiatrique (ESOGER) questionnaire available on a secure digital platform enabling both a rapid evaluation and intervention to asses EP needs and provide the adequate ressources. The principal investigator's previous research has demonstrated that ESOGER is one of the rare clinical tools of first contact in telehealth while being global, multidimensional, and equitable.

Hence, the principal investigator hypothesizes that ESOGER is a clinical tool enabling first line care by the Red-Cross to vulnerable EP without a family doctor, which will lead to an improvement in their health, autonomy and quality of life. Moreover, the principal investigator also hypothesizes that for a better deployment, the tool needs to be adapted to Red-Cross' need and EP service providers.

Conditions

  • Social Isolation
  • Aging

Interventions

OTHER

Recommendations and re-orientation towards appropriate physical, mental, and social health ressources

Resources recommendations and interventions curated to the needs of the EP such as refering them to a social activity for socially isolated EP.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Centre integre universitaire de sante et de services sociaux du Centre-Sud-de-l'Île-de-Montréal

    lead OTHER_GOV

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-06-28
Primary Completion
2022-07-27
Completion
2022-07-27

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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