VA Community Living Centers to Home
Withdrawn before enrolling · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Aged, Frail Elderly
In brief
Older adults prefer to live as in the community as long as possible. Creating a standardized treatment planning process that includes assessments of everyday competence and goal-setting techniques to help Veterans move from VA nursing homes back to the community can improve functional health, well-being, and quality of life for older Veterans. Research has shown that 29% of nursing home residents might be able to live safely in the community instead. Currently, VA provides nursing home care to more than 13,000 Veterans across the country, which costs about $3.3 billion a year. It is expensive for VA to provide nursing home care to these inappropriate residents and they are using limited resources that could be given to another Veteran with more urgent needs. The Everyday Competence Assessment and Planning for Community Transitions (ECAP-CT) toolkit will help these Veterans to move back into the community with the services and supports they need based on their individual level of everyday competence.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02211274
- Run by
- VA Office of Research and Development
- People needed
- 0
- Starts
- 2016-07-01
- Expected to finish
- 2020-02-28
- Last updated by the study team
- 2020-04-09
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- CLC residents will be included if they are able to demonstrate understanding of the informed consent process through teach-back and to communicate verbally.
You may not qualify if…
- CLC residents will be excluded if they are too cognitively impaired or have serious mental illness too severe to meaningfully participate in interviews (i.e., they are not "transition-capable").
- No participants will be excluded based on gender, race, social class, or ethnicity.
Where it is running
- Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, RI — Providence, Rhode Island, United States
- Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX — Houston, Texas, United States
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