Mobility in Old age By Integrating health care and personal network resources in older adults Living in rural arEas

Mobility in Old age By Integrating health care and personal network resources in older adults Living in rural arEas - MOBILE

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

DRKS

Registry ID

DRKS00025230

Enrollment

254

Registered

2021-05-04

Start date

2021-06-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2025-04-07

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Functional decline, mobility R26

Interventions

Group 1: Intervention: Preventive home-visit and telephone aftercare program to determine individual goals of outdoor mobility reflecting personal interest, social-and environmental resources. The dev

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

75 Years to No maximum

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Ability to give informed consent - Sufficient eyesight and hearing ability for the understanding of all included assessments - Sufficient ability for regular outdoor mobility - Place of residence within the region Havelland, Brandenburg in Germany - Participants live at home or live autonomously in an ambulant care facility

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: - Severe cognitive disability/ diagnosed moderate or serve dementia - People who are living in inpatient care facilities - Inability to understand written patient information and give informed consent - Severe psychological or emotional impairment - Insufficient understanding of the German language - Severe events that impair mobility within the past four weeks

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Mobility outdoors (GPS/GIS deriven data of spent daliy minutes outdoors) measured at 3 points of time (Baseline; During intervention; Follow-Up after 3 months).	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Secondary Outcome: Additional objective and subjective parameters of outdoor mobility (e.g parameters of Life-Space mobility like convex hull; daily diary and LSA-D as self-assessments). Assessment of activity (IPAQ), health status (GDS, SF-12; Frailty-Phenotype) Mediator variables: Personal resources (goal attainment; Balance confidence, habits, health literacy, action and coping planning); regional resources (connection to place, access to health care, importance of neighborhood); social resources (social network, loneliness, social participation). Assessment takes place at three points in time by a study nurse. Covariates: Age, region, gender, living arrangements, care level, physical fitness (DEMMI), hand grip strength, cognition (Mini-Cog).	—

Measure

Time frame

Secondary Outcome: Additional objective and subjective parameters of outdoor mobility (e.g parameters of Life-Space mobility like convex hull; daily diary and LSA-D as self-assessments). Assessment of activity (IPAQ), health status (GDS, SF-12; Frailty-Phenotype) Mediator variables: Personal resources (goal attainment; Balance confidence, habits, health literacy, action and coping planning); regional resources (connection to place, access to health care, importance of neighborhood); social resources (social network, loneliness, social participation). Assessment takes place at three points in time by a study nurse. Covariates: Age, region, gender, living arrangements, care level, physical fitness (DEMMI), hand grip strength, cognition (Mini-Cog).

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Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactChristine;Sandra Ackermann;Mümken

Charité Universitätsmedizin - BerlinInstitut für Medizinische Soziologie und Rehabilitationswissenschaft;Charité - Universitätsmedizin BerlinInstitut für Medizinische Soziologie und Rehabilitationswissenschaft

christine.ackermann@charite.de;sandra.muemken@charite.de030 450 529164;030 450 529 125

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Mar 7, 2026