Effectiveness of AMICOPE Intervention to Maintain Self-Perceived Health and Intrinsic Capacity in Older People

Summary

In their day to day, persons do from simple to more or less complicated tasks and activities (ie: stand from a chair, open a door, shopping, read, drive, play chess, remind an appointment...). Such ability to do things is called capacity. Intrinsic capacity is the combination of all the physical and mental capacities that a person has, and reach its maximum in the early adulthood and then declines as the person ages. Each kind of capacity declines at her own speed (which may be faster or slower according to each person lifestyle), and once drops below a threshold may lead to a reduction in quality of life and loss of autonomy.

Nevertheless there are some actions that may be effective to prevent or slow such decline. To do so the investigators have design an intervention that combines several things of different nature (what is know as a complex intervention) called AMICOPE. The AMICOPE intervention is performed in the community or in primary care centers through 12 weekly group sessions of 2 h 30 min which combine structured and adapted physical activity, group dynamics to promote social support and address loneliness, social isolation and depressive symptoms, and dietary advice.

Our study is addressed to persons over 70 with light problems in mobility, nutrition or mood state.

The purpose of this study is to assess if the AMICOPE intervention is better than the standard advice to follow healthy lifestyles to improve or maintain self-perceived health, mobility, nutritional status an psychological wellbeing.

Conditions

• Mobility
• Depressive Symptoms
• Nutrition, Healthy
• Cognitive Decline
• Hearing Loss
• Visual Impairment

Interventions

OTHER

VIVIFRAIL

VIVIFRAIL is a set of physical activity programs (designed according to several elderly functional level profiles) aimed to prevent motor disability and improve quality of life. It works endurance, flexibility, balance and strength. https://web.archive.org/web/20210907041944/https://vivifrail.com/

OTHER

Nutrition

Sessions to learn about personal nutrition habits, offer nutritional advice, and acquire skills to incorporate simple healthy nutrition guidelines into everyday life. A visit to a supermarket to make it easier to read and understand the basic information on nutrition labels.

BEHAVIORAL

Psychology

Relaxation techniques to manage mood, a photo-elicitation dynamic to address loneliness, and a dynamic to collectively develop a map of health assets in the neighborhood or territory to obtain information on community resources. Finally, a group visit is planned to a community facility previously agreed upon by the participants.

BEHAVIORAL

Personal autonomy

Review practical cases on personal autonomy, the proper use of medications, and discover basic cognitive stimulation strategies.

OTHER

Community resources

Learn about community resources

OTHER

Standard recommendations

Usual advice provided at primary care office accompanied to booklets about healthy lifestyles

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Fundacio Salut i Envelliment UAB

  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

2022-04-01

Primary Completion

2023-06-30

Completion

2024-08-31