Community-dwelling elderly (age 65 years or older) with physical or mental disability in some degree, who are eligible for the long-term care insurance program
Conditions
Interventions
Care managers from the Nagoya City Health Care Service Foundation for Older People, which has 16 care-managing centers, are randomly assigned to two groups in each center, intervention and usual care
Sponsors
Department of Geriatrics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine
the Nagoya City Health Care Service Foundation for Older People
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Community-dwelling elderly with physical or mental disability in some degree, who were eligible for the Long-Term Care Insurance program, lived in Nagoya City, Japan, and received care management service from the Nagoya City Health Care Service Foundation for Older People, and their caregivers
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: no exclusion criteria
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| mortality and hospitalization during 2-year follow-up | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| long-term care placement and overall discontinuation of living at home during 2-year follow-up, and adverse health outcomes of caregivers | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Public ContactMasafumi Kuzuya
Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine Geriatrics
Outcome results
None listed