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The engAGE Project: Immersive Intergenerational Intervention to Improve Movement in Older Adults

NCT07112638 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 240

Last updated 2025-12-05

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Summary

The engAGE project is an innovative, non-oriented research initiative that seeks to advance public health knowledge to promote quality of life and functional independence in older adults. It combines expertise in public health, education, pedagogy, psychology, and technology with a novel approach.

The project is divided in two phases:

Phase 1:

Involves the co-creation of an intergenerational intervention designed to improve movement patterns of community-dwelling older adults (65+), recruited from community and day care centres. Using participatory action research, interventions will be co-designed with older adults, family members (including children and grandchildren), students, health and education professionals, technology experts, and researchers. The reserachers aim is to reduce sedentary behaviour (SB), increase physical activity (PA), and explore the added value of immersive technology to enhance uptake, adherence, and sustainability.

Phase 2:

Evaluate the effects of the tailored, co-created intervention through a randomised controlled clinical trial. Movement patterns will be assessed via accelerometry and observational measures (time in SB, active vs. passive SB, standing, walking, steps, and transitions) at baseline, post-intervention, 6 months, and 12 months. In addition to movement outcomes, secondary measures will include functional capacity, independence, loneliness, social isolation, physical function, body composition, quality of life, depression, anxiety, and cost-utility.

Conditions

  • Frailty at Older Adults

Interventions

OTHER

immersive technology-based intergenerational intervention to improve movement patterns in older adults

Intervention group The intervention consists of 60-minute supervised sessions conducted once per week for 12 weeks. Each session begins with a 10-minute warm-up, followed by 15 minutes of strength training. Four structured session types (A, B, C, and D) were designed and are being rotated throughout the 12-week period. These sessions incorporate upper and lower body exercises performed using body weight and/or resistance bands, adapted to each participant's physical function.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Ramon Llull

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-02-03
Primary Completion
2026-06-01
Completion
2027-01-01

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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