SAFE-LiFE to Prevent Falls Among Older Fallers
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Fall Prevention
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University
- Enrollment
- 40
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Times Up and Go Test
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 6 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
Purpose: To test the effect of LIVE-LiFE, a home-based, tailored fall prevention program for older adults with a high risk for falling.
Study Type: Single-blind, two group randomized pilot trial. Randomization is 2:1 (27 intervention, 13 control). Participants have a chance of being in the LIVE-LiFE group or the control group.
Safe-LiFE Group: Individually tailored intervention at the participant's home spaced across 12 weeks including:
- Home safety assessment and risk reduction strategies; incorporating strength and balance training into daily habits vision screening and referral; and education about fear of falling and falls
- Home repairs, modifications, and low cost assistive devices to address unsafe home environments increasing fall risk
- Medication review and feedback concerning medications with increased fall risk
Control Group:
• An individualized fall risk assessment provided to participant and their primary care provider
Sample: 40 community-dwelling older adults in Baltimore City or County
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Adults ≥ 70 or older
- •Self-report of 2 or more falls in the past 12 months OR 1 fall causing injury in the past 12 months
Exclusion Criteria
- •Moderate-severe memory problems
- •No conversational English
- •Not able to stand
- •Resident in a nursing home or assisted living facility
- •Hospitalized \> 3 times in the last year
- •Terminally ill (\<1 year expected survival)
- •Receiving active cancer treatment
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Times Up and Go Test
Time Frame: Baseline to 16 weeks
A test used to assess the length of time it takes a person to get out of a chair, walk 10 feet, turn around and sit back down in the same chair.
Secondary Outcomes
- Falls Self-Efficacy(Baseline to 16 weeks)