The efficacy of the LIFE Lifestyle approach to balance and strength training in improving balance and strength in older people: A randomized trial

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Phase 2

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12606000013561

Acronym

LIFE

Enrollment

Registered

2006-01-09

Start date

2005-05-16

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

The LIFE program is an innovative way of embedding balance and strength training within daily life activity and it is designed to prevent falls. This pilot study is recruiting at-risk community residing elderly from metropolitan Sydney to a randomized trial to evaluate the efficacy of the program in improving and maintaining balance and lower limb strength. Subjects will be followed for a 6 month period.

Interventions

Embedding balance and strength training within daily habitual routines. The intervention will be taught during weekly home visits for up to 8 weeks with a three month follow up. The participants will be assessed at baseline, 3 months and 6 months.

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Intervention model

Parallel

Primary purpose

Prevention

Masking

Blinded (masking used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

70 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Two falls in past year or one injurious fall.

Exclusion criteria

Mod-severe cognitive impairment, no conversational english, inability to ambulate independently , resident in a nursing home or hostel, any unstable or terminal medical illness which would preclude the planned exercises, neurological conditions that result in motor performance difficulties such as hmeiplegia from stroke or parkinsons dissease.

Outcome results