Improving Vision and Quality of Life in the Nursing Home

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Refractive Error, Cataract

In brief

The primary purpose of this study is to evaluate whether interventions to improve vision in nursing home residents have an impact on residents' health-related quality of life. The interventions being evaluated are correction of refractive error (near-sightedness, far-sightedness, presbyopia) and cataract surgery.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00347620

Run by

University of Alabama at Birmingham

People needed

400

Starts

2000-08-01

Expected to finish

2003-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2010-03-15

Who can join

Age: 60 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• at least 60 years of age or older
• expected to stay in facility foe at least 8 months
• stable medical condition
• moderately cognitively impaired or better

You may not qualify if…

• those not meeting inclusion criteria

Where it is running

• Integrated Health Services at Briarcliff — Alabaster, Alabama, United States
• Shelby Ridge Nursing Home — Alabaster, Alabama, United States
• Livingston Health Care Center — Bessemer, Alabama, United States
• Southgate Village — Bessemer, Alabama, United States
• Beverly Healthcare Meadowood — Bessemer, Alabama, United States
• Fair Haven Retirement Center — Birmingham, Alabama, United States
• Beverly Healthcare Center Forestdale — Birmingham, Alabama, United States
• Beverly Healthcare East — Birmingham, Alabama, United States
• South Haven — Birmingham, Alabama, United States
• Fairview Health & Rehabilitation Center — Birmingham, Alabama, United States
• Estes Nursing Facility Civic Center — Birmingham, Alabama, United States
• Estes Nursing Facility Northway — Birmingham, Alabama, United States
• Beverly Healthcare Riverchase — Birmingham, Alabama, United States
• Beverly Health Care Center West — Fairfield, Alabama, United States
• The Self Nursing Home, Inc — Hueytown, Alabama, United States
• Beverly Healthcare Pleasant Grove — Pleasant Grove, Alabama, United States
• Consult America Cottage Hills — Pleasant Grove, Alabama, United States

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