Enabling health and maintaining independence for older people at home: the 'HomeHealth' trial

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Older people with mild frailty; Not Applicable

• Registration Number: ISRCTN54268283
• Lead Sponsor: niversity College London

Brief Summary

2022 Protocol article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35659196/ (added 07/06/2022) 2023 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37997084/ (added 24/11/2023)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2020-04-22
• Study Completion: 2023-07-04
• Last Update Posted: 4 December 2023

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 388

Inclusion Criteria

Current inclusion criteria as of 06/08/2020:

1. Older people aged 65+ years
2. Registered with a general practice in the participating site area
3. Scoring as ‘mildly frail’ on the Clinical Frailty Scale
4. Community-dwelling (including extra care housing)
5. Life expectancy of > 6 months
6. Capacity to consent to participate
7. People with dementia will not be excluded from the study, providing they fit the above criteria

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Previous inclusion criteria:

1. Older people aged 65+
2. Registered with a participating general practice
3. Scoring as ‘mildly frail’ on the Clinical Frailty Scale
4. Community-dwelling (including extra care housing)
5. Life expectancy of >6 months
6. Capacity to consent to participate
7. People with dementia will not be excluded from the study, providing they fit the above criteria

Exclusion Criteria

1. Care home residents
2. Those with moderate to severe frailty (6-9 on Rockwood Clinical Frailty Scale [CFS]) or not frail (1-4 CFS)
3. Receiving palliative care
4. Already case managed
5. Lack capacity to consent

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Independence in basic activities of daily living will be measured by the modified Barthel Index at baseline, 6 and 12 months