Combatting Frailty in Older Men with multifaceted individually tailored intervention including exercise, diet and behavior.

A single blind randomised trial on combatting frailty in older men through a multifaceted individually tailored interventions including exercise, dietary supplementation, and behavioural activation.

Status

Terminated

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12615000568516

Enrollment

Registered

2015-06-02

Start date

2015-11-05

Completion date

2016-01-28

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

Frailty is a common syndrome in older adults caused by a decline in reserve capacity of the body's systems used to maintain health. We are interested as to whether interventions for frailty work BEFORE the involvement of clinical services. We propose to undertake a trial of community dwelling older men to determine whether a simple package of interventions can combat this syndrome.

Interventions

Intervention period is now only six months not 3 years.

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Intervention model

Parallel

Primary purpose

Treatment

Masking

Blinded (masking used) (Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

Male

Age

83 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Men who were previously part of the HIMS cohort study (Norman et al 2009) who are currently all over the age of 83 years who are frail or prefrail on the FRAIL scale.(McCaul et al, 2015)

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: men with moderate cognitive impairment (MMSE) (Folstein et al, 1975), or who have evidence of major illness likely to cause death within six months.

Outcome results