Improving Function, Participation and Function After Acute Hospitalization in Older Adults

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Conditions studied: Frail Older Adults

In brief

Hospitalization increases the risk for new disability in older adults. In the current health care system, home health physical therapy is understudied and often does not return older adults to prior levels of function. The proposed evidence-based multicomponent intervention that combines high intensity strength training and motor control based systems of gait and balance training will advance clinical practice by providing an intervention strategy for practitioners. If successful, improving patient function and decreasing re-hospitalization rates and falls will have large cost saving implications.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01872637

Run by

University of Colorado, Denver

People needed

30

Starts

2011-06-01

Expected to finish

2017-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-05-17

Who can join

Age: 65 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 65 years or older
• referred to home care physical therapy
• have at least 3 comorbid conditions
• ambulatory without human assistance prior to hospitalization

You may not qualify if…

• acute lower extremity fractures with weight-bearing restriction
• elective joint replacement surgery
• active cancer diagnosis
• acute cardiac surgery
• lower extremity amputation
• referred to hospice home health physical therapy
• dialysis
• hospice care

Where it is running

• University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus — Aurora, Colorado, United States
• Arcadia University — Glenside, Pennsylvania, United States

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