None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
After a hospital stay some older people will be accepted on the Transition Care Program into a bed based place. They may go to a hostel or nursing home for a few weeks after completing their inpatient stay. These people may receive physiotherapy treatment while they are staying there with the aim of helping them to assist them to get as well as possible. As part of this study some of these people will be offered more physical activity and additional supervision whilst exercising. The aim of this project is to see whether this will make any difference to where the people go at the end of their stay - to their home or long term in residential care. Approximately 50 people will take part in this study over a period of two years. The study will take place in Bendigo.
Interventions
Functional Incidental Training (FIT) which is defined as ‘Care processes that are designed to increase activity and functional ability with emphasis placed on the repetition of exercises that are specific to the functional skills involved with toileting and other activities of daily living’. For this study FIT will be instituted to be undertaken four times daily from Monday to Friday and on weekends if possible. The FIT exercise component will be designed to fit the individual abilities of the
Functional Incidental Training (FIT) which is defined as ‘Care processes that are designed to increase activity and functional ability with emphasis placed on the repetition of exercises that are specific to the functional skills involved with toileting and other activities of daily living’. For this study FIT will be instituted to be undertaken four times daily from Monday to Friday and on weekends if possible. The FIT exercise component will be designed to fit the individual abilities of the participant. For the standard physiotherapy plus FIT group this will mean weekly physiotherapy treatments, an additional visit from a physiotherapy assistant, encouragement to exercise from the Activity workers and residence staff and a written list of individualised exercises on the wall in their room. The intervention will take place while the participant is occupying a Transition Care Program bed which averages approximately six weeks but may be up to 18 weeks.
Sponsors
La Trobe University
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Primary purpose
Treatment
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
65 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Accepted into a bed based Transition Care Program place (this means that the person has completed their episode of care, are medically stable, would be assessed by the Aged Care Assessment Team for at least a low level of permanent residential care and able to benefit from additional services and a period to assess their long term opportunities) Resident in the Bendigo area Consent to be part of the study
Exclusion criteria
Not on Transition Care Program On Transition Care Program but in a community place Not resident in Bendigo Does not consent
Outcome results
None listed