Mobility in Old age By Integrating health care and personal network resources in older adultsLiving in rural arEas

Not Applicable

• Conditions: R26; Functional decline, mobility; Abnormalities of gait and mobility

• Registration Number: DRKS00025230
• Lead Sponsor: Charité - Universitätsmedizin BerlinInstitut für Medizinische Soziologie und Rehabilitationswsssenschaft

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2021-05-04
• Study Completion: 2023-09-01
• Last Update Posted: 19 August 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Complete
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 212

Inclusion Criteria

Ability to give informed consent
- Sufficient eyesight and hearing ability for the understanding of all included assessments

- Sufficient ability for regular outdoor mobility

- Place of residence within the region Havelland, Brandenburg in Germany

- Participants live at home or live autonomously in an ambulant care facility

Exclusion Criteria

- Severe cognitive disability/ diagnosed moderate or serve dementia

- People who are living in inpatient care facilities

- Inability to understand written patient information and give informed consent

- Severe psychological or emotional impairment

- Insufficient understanding of the German language

- Severe events that impair mobility within the past four weeks

Study & Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Mobility outdoors (GPS/GIS deriven data of spent daliy minutes outdoors) measured at 3 points of time (Baseline; During intervention; Follow-Up after 3 months).

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Secondary Outcome: Additional objective and subjective parameters of outdoor mobility (e.g parameters of Life-Space mobility like convex hull; daily diary and LSA-D as self-assessments). Assessment of activity (IPAQ), health status (GDS, SF-12; Frailty-Phenotype)<br>Mediator variables: Personal resources (goal attainment; Balance confidence, habits, health literacy, action and coping planning); regional resources (connection to place, access to health care, importance of neighborhood); social resources (social network, loneliness, social participation).<br>Assessment takes place at three points in time by a study nurse. <br>Covariates: Age, region, gender, living arrangements, care level, physical fitness (DEMMI), hand grip strength, cognition (Mini-Cog).<br>