Frailty Intervention Trial

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Frailty; Premature admission to residential care; Disability; Undernutrition; Falls; Psychological morbidity; Chronic health conditions associated with ageing; Physical Medicine / Rehabilitation - Other physical medicine / rehabilitation; Public Health - Health service research

• Registration Number: ACTRN12608000250336
• Lead Sponsor: Professor Ian Cameron

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2008-05-16
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 330

Inclusion Criteria

Aged >=70 years, with 3 or more Fried Frailty Criteria, not usually living in a residential aged care facility, resident in the Hornsby Ku-ring-gai local government areas, without severe cognitive impairment (defined as a MMSE score of 18 or less), absence of illnesses likely to be associated with a life expectancy of less than 12 months.

Exclusion Criteria

People who did not meet all of the inclusion criteria or who did not consent.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Time required to complete the Timed Up and Go test[At baseline, three and 12 months after randomisation];Short Physical Performance Battery Score[At baseline, three and 12 months after randomisation]

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Frailty assessment score[At baseline, three and 12 months after randomisation];Unplanned hospitalisation or admission to residential care facility[At baseline, three and 12 months after randomisation];Activities of daily living status (using Barthel Index)[At baseline, three and 12 months after randomisation];Health related quality of life (using the EQ-5D)[At baseline, three and 12 months after randomisation];Psychological status (using the Geriatric Depression Scale)[At baseline, three and 12 months after randomisation];Satisfaction with service provision via a questionnaire to all participants[At baseline, three and 12 months after randomisation];Incremental cost effectiveness via comparisons of the resource utilisation of the intervention and control groups[At baseline, three and 12 months after randomisation]