Implementing an allied health reablement program in the community and in residential aged care:
- Conditions
- FrailtyPhysical Medicine / Rehabilitation - Other physical medicine / rehabilitationFallsPhysical Medicine / Rehabilitation - Occupational therapyPhysical Medicine / Rehabilitation - PhysiotherapyPhysical Medicine / Rehabilitation - Speech therapyPublic Health - Other public health
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12623000915651
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity of Canberra
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 50
Any new or existing (permanent) resident (nursing home or independent living) of Estia Bexley and Estia Blakehurst is eligible.
Any relative, family member, Power or Attorney or Guardian of the resident is eligible for face to face interviews.
Any staff member involved in the care of the resident participant is eligible for face to face interviews.
In some case people with severe cognitive impairment will not be able to engage in the allied health program. For example, people who have severe expressive and receptive communication impairment and who are immobile due to dementia are unlikely to be able to meaningfully engage in the program.
Anyone who is not a relative, family member, Power or Attorney or Guardian of the resident is not eligible for face to face interviews.
Staff members who have not been involved in the care of the resident participant are not eligible for face to face interviews.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Frailty.<br>Change in physical function as measured by the Short Physical Performance Battery [ Baseline and immediately after intervention ceases];Frailty <br>Change in frailty as measured by the Frailty NH Scale[ Baseline and immediately after intervention ceases]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method