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- Title
Community Aging in Place, Advancing Better Living for Elders: A Bio-Behavioral-Environmental Intervention to Improve Function and Health-Related Quality of Life in Disabled Older Adults.
- Authors
Szanton, Sarah L.; Thorpe, Roland J.; Boyd, Cynthia; Tanner, Elizabeth K.; Leff, Bruce; Agree, Emily; Xue, Qian-Li; Allen, Jerilyn K.; Seplaki, Christopher L.; Weiss, Carlos O.; Guralnik, Jack M.; Gitlin, Laura N.
- Abstract
Objectives To determine effect size and acceptability of a multicomponent behavior and home repair intervention for low-income disabled older adults. Design Prospective randomized controlled pilot trial. Setting Participants' homes. Participants Forty low-income older adults with difficulties in one or more activities of daily living ( ADLs) or two or more instrumental activities of daily living ( IADLs). Intervention The Community Aging in Place, Advancing Better Living for Elders ( CAPABLE), coordinated occupational therapy, nursing, and handyman visits, was compared with attention-control visits. The intervention consisted of up to six visits with an occupational therapist, up to four visits with a nurse, and an average of $1,300 in handyman repairs and modifications. Each intervention participant received all components of the intervention clinically individualized to risk profile and goals. Each attention-control participant received the same number of visits as the intervention participants, involving sedentary activities of their choice. Measurement Primary outcome: difficulty in performing ADLs and IADLs. Secondary outcomes: health-related quality of life and falls efficacy. Results Thirty-five of 40 adults (87%) completed the 6-month trial, and 93% and 100% of the control and intervention group, respectively, stated that the study benefited them. The intervention group improved on all outcomes. When comparing mean change in the intervention group with mean change in the control group from baseline to follow-up, the CAPABLE intervention had effect sizes of 0.63 for reducing difficulty in ADLs, 0.62 for reducing difficulty in IADLs, 0.89 for quality of life, and 0.55 for falls efficacy. Conclusion The CAPABLE intervention was acceptable to participants and feasible to provide and showed promising results, suggesting that this multicomponent intervention to reduce disability should be evaluated in a larger trial.
- Subjects
MARYLAND; ACCIDENTAL fall prevention; PAIN management; GERIATRIC assessment; ATTENTION; BLACK people; CHI-squared test; DRUGS; HEALTH facility design &; construction; HOME care services; LIFE skills; LONGITUDINAL method; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL tests; MOVEMENT disorders; NURSING practice; OCCUPATIONAL therapy; PATIENT compliance; PEOPLE with disabilities; GENERAL practitioners; POVERTY; QUALITY of life; RESEARCH funding; SCALES (Weighing instruments); T-test (Statistics); PILOT projects; DISABILITIES; ACTIVITIES of daily living; HOME environment; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; SENIOR housing; EFFECT sizes (Statistics); RANDOMIZED controlled trials; CONTROL groups; BLIND experiment; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; OLD age
- Publication
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2011, Vol 59, Issue 12, p2314
- ISSN
0002-8614
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1532-5415.2011.03698.x