Senior Health Clinic Study

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Dementia; Cardiovascular Diseases; Frailty
• Interventions: Behavioral: Health Education

• Registration Number: NCT05634239
• Lead Sponsor: University of Turku

Brief Summary

Turku Senior Health Clinic study The Turku Senior Health Clinic Study was targeted to 75-year-old citizens with an underlying idea that at that age it would be almost the last moment to nudge people towards healthy lifestyle and taking care of their health and functional ability to maintain independent living.

The short-term aims of the Turku Senior Health Clinic Study are to survey health and functional statuses and prevalence of specified risk factors for CVDs, dementia, frailty, and functional decline of 75-year-old independently home-dwelling citizens of the city of Turku. The aims also include assessment the frequency of follow-up treatments needed, and recommendations given for lifestyle changes and evidence-based drug treatment, as well as fulfillment of these recommendations. Also, participants feedback on the Turku Senior Health Clinic will be assessed. In addition, based on the results, recommendation for the content and implementation of preventive health clinic targeted to older people will be provided. The long-term aim of the research project is to assess the effects of the Turku Senior Health Clinic on the need of institutional care and home care as well as the cost-effectiveness of the clinic during the 10-year follow-up. For this purpose, participants of the Senior Health Clinic Study will be compared to that of non-participants and earlier cohorts of 75-year-olds in terms of the use of home care and institutional care.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2020-01-02
• Status Verified: 2022-11
• Study First Submitted: 2022-11-21
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-11-21
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-11-21
• Study First Posted: 2022-12-02
• Last Update Posted: 2022-12-02
• Primary Completion: 2023-12-31
• Study Completion: 2023-12-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 2500

Inclusion Criteria

• citizens of Turku
• home-dwelling

Exclusion Criteria

• use of munical home care

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Health check	Health Education	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Use of home care and institutional care.	10 year	Use of the municipal home care and institutional care among participant, non-participants and earlier cohorts from local registers.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Turku; 🇫🇮 Turku, University Of Turku, Finland