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Preventing Loss of Independence Through Exercise in Community Living Centers

NCT06972004 · Status: ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 288

Last updated 2025-10-22

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Approximately 40,000 older Veterans who have complex care needs (for example, a combination of severe cognitive, physical, and mental health conditions) receive long-term care in VA Community Living Centers (CLCs). However, CLC staff members rarely receive specialized training in how to best engage and interact with these Veterans, which can lead to poor care quality, worsening of symptoms, staff burnout, and low morale throughout a facility. The investigators have developed a unique, mind-body, group movement program for Veterans with cognitive impairment called Preventing Loss of Independence through Exercise (PLIÉ) and found that it has physical, cognitive, social and emotional benefits in CLC residents. The investigators recently taught 50 staff members from a variety of professions in 5 CLCs to lead PLIÉ classes. The study will enable us to test whether the PLIÉ,LC staff training program improves outcomes for residents and to learn about the success and sustainment of the training.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Preventing Loss of Independence through Exercise (PLIE)

Preventing Loss of Independence through Exercise (PLIÉ) is a multi-domain, mind-body, group movement program for people with dementia that improves quality of life. Classes begins and ends with fully body tapping/massaging and breathing exercises that bring participants into awareness of their bodies in the present moment and create a calming ritual. Participants are invited to share appreciations of things in their lives that make them feel happy or grateful. Instructors lead participants through progressive, functional movement sequences that are designed to be repetitive (to build procedural or "muscle" memory) and to build slowly in functional complexity over time. Movements are tailored to the ability levels of the group. Resting, breathing and mindful body awareness exercises are incorporated throughout each class to provide breaks and to improve focus and attention. A non-judgmental errorless learning process is used, and all movements are performed slowly and purposefully.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Francesca M Nicosia, PhD MA · San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, CA

  • Linda L. Chao, PhD BS · San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, CA

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SEQUENTIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-10-01
Primary Completion
2028-11-30
Completion
2029-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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