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Exercise Program for Maintaining Physical Function and Frailty on Dwelling Older Adults

NCT05726214 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 44

Last updated 2024-04-09

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Summary

Older people living in their homes and receiving social assistance are at a high risk of suffering functional loss, hospitalization and/or developing disability. This condition is known as frailty. Exercise programs including strength, balance and flexibility training have demonstrated to prevent, delay or even treat frailty. However, participation in this type of exercise programs is very limited in the group of older adults mentioned above.

The present study seeks to evaluate the effects of an exercise program designed to maintain or improve physical function and frailty. The hypothesis is that people who participate in the physical exercise program will maintain or improve their physical capacity, their frailty and psycho-affective status, their quality of life, and generate a lower demand for social and health services compared to those people who do not exercise.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Exercise

The face-to-face multicomponent program entailed: * Strength training of upper and lower limbs. Familiarization phase included 2-3 exercises of 1-2 series and 8-12 repetitions per session. During the acquisition phase, 2-3 exercises of 2-3 series and 8-12 repetitions at a higher velocity. The resting time between sets lasted 1-3 minutes. * Balance exercises included proprioception, agility and weight transfer exercises. Difficulty progressively increased by reducing the base of support, by including multidirectional displacements, walking on tiptoe or heels, body-weight transfer, dynamic exercises modifying the centre of gravity, and stressing postural muscles and by sensorial reductions. * Flexibility exercises: Static stretching maintained during 20-30s carried out at the end of each session. The Vivifrail exercise wheel corresponding to each participant was given according to their functional level type.

OTHER

Recommendations for active lifestyle

After the baseline assessments, all participants received individualized counseling for following physically active lifestyle and reducing sedentary behaviors. Participants were encouraged to increase the physical activity time and intensity, and to hourly break the sedentary time while at home. The recommendations were transmitted verbally and through written material.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ana AR Rodriguez Larrad · UPV/EHU

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-03-01
Primary Completion
2023-06-30
Completion
2023-06-30

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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