None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Currently home-based services in New Zealand have a number of issues and are failing to provide appropriate and reliable services for older people. They are based on a dependency model and have a standardised rigid focus with defined responses to the identified needs of elderly. In response to these issues, restorative home care aims to improve flexibility of service delivery to meet the needs of older people living at home. For this research study, the restorative service will be implemented and compared to the current usual care for older people living at home using a randomised control trial research design. It is hoped that the restorative treatment group will have improved physical, psychological and social wellbeing when compared to usual care for older people living at home. Outcome data will be collected at baseline, four and seven months
Interventions
A trained co-ordinator undertakes an assessment and sets goals with each individual older person.
Support workers receive specialised training in relation to the older person achieving their goals.
The duration of the intervention will be over one year with follow-ups assessed at four and seven months.
Sponsors
The University of Auckland
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Blinded (masking used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
65 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Older people who received assistance from the home care agency
Exclusion criteria
Older people or support workers who have or who are currently recovering from a serious illness/injury, which could be physical or mental, will be excluded from the study.
Outcome results
None listed