Home Telerehabilitation for Deconditioned Older Adults

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Osteoarthritis

In brief

The purpose of this study is to develop a home exercise program for patients 60 years of age and over who are deconditioned following their discharge from the hospital, or recruited from GLA outpatient clinics. The program will be designed to monitor and improve patients' exercise behavior through the use of home technology, such as text messaging monitors.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00386256

Run by

US Department of Veterans Affairs

People needed

38

Starts

2006-10-01

Expected to finish

2008-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2014-08-15

Who can join

Age: 60 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• acute decline in functional status while hospitalized as reported by the patient
• physically inactive outpatients (exercise less than 30 min/day, 3 d/wk)
• ability to hear and communicate via telephone
• ability to read a video or text monitor
• ability to manually operate the technology
• have a working telephone and power source
• willingness to use the TEL-REHAB technology

You may not qualify if…

• does not speak English
• poor cognition as determined by the Mini-Cog
• non-ambulatory
• had a stroke, myocardial infarction, hip fracture, or total hip or knee replacement within the prior 6 months

Where it is running

• VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West LA — West Los Angeles, California, United States

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