Fall Recovery Training for Older Adults in Continuous Care Facilities

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Accidental Falls

In brief

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect that a new fall prevention training program has on the fall incidence of long-term care facility residents at high-risk of falling.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02173015

Run by

Mayo Clinic

People needed

150

Starts

2014-04-01

Expected to finish

2016-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-04-04

Who can join

Age: 50 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Subjects must be 50 years or older, living in continuous-care retirement facilities.

You may not qualify if…

• For participation in study:
• Three or more errors on the Six-Item Screener for Cognitive Impairment
• Individuals who cannot provide consent for themselves
• For participation in compensatory step training:
• Physician or nurse practitioner approval to participate in the study with the guidelines that subjects should not participate if any of the following is applicable:
• Unable to walk one block without stopping or using a walking aid (self-reported)
• Acute illness at the time of functional assessment or training
• Body mass greater than 114 kg
• Body size too large for wearing a safety harness
• Lower extremity joint replacement within a year prior to participation
• Femoral neck or total hip bone mineral density t-score less than -2.5
• Based on a dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scan in the Mayo Clinic Charlton Clinical Research Unit (CRU), with no medication changes that may affect bone mineral density at the hip (e.g. starting prednisone). During the visit to the CRU, the subject's height and weight will be measured.
• If the subject has had a hip DXA scan within 6 months of participation, the exclusion criterion will be based on the previous scan.
• If the subject has had bilateral hip replacement, then the subject will not qualify for compensatory step training.
• Dementia
• Parkinson's disease
• A history of stroke
• A history of back surgery
• Bulging vertebral discs
• Spine, hip, or lower extremity fracture within a year prior to participation
• Open lesions on the lower extremity
• In case of lower extremity amputation, stump volume fluctuations within a year of training
• Use of a pacemaker
• Use of an ostomy pouch
• Pregnancy

Where it is running

• Mayo Clinic — Rochester, Minnesota, United States

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