Staying UpRight in Residential Care: An exercise program for older people living in residential care designed to reduce rates of falls

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Falls; Dementia; Injuries and Accidents - Fractures; Injuries and Accidents - Other injuries and accidents; Neurological - Dementias; Physical Medicine / Rehabilitation - Physiotherapy

• Registration Number: ACTRN12618001827224
• Lead Sponsor: The University of Auckland

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2018-11-09
• Study Completion: 2021-03-31
• Last Update Posted: 6 December 2021

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 614

Inclusion Criteria

Residents living in participating aged-care facilities, who are 65 years of age and over, mobile with or without cognitive deficit

Exclusion Criteria

Residents in respite care, in the palliative stage of life, extremely unwell, bedbound or in hospital-level psychogeriatric care.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Rate of falling expressed as number of falls per thousand person-years of follow-up.[Continuous monitoring of care home accident / incident fall registers for the 6 months prior to study commencement (to provide baseline data) and at 12 months after intervention commencement at the facility ]