House Calls, Prevention
Conditions
Keywords
Elderly, Preventive home visits
Brief summary
To investigate whether preventive home visits for healthy persons 75+, made by professional health workers, can change the pattern of care utilization and if the quality of life can improve. The hypothesis is that care utilisation will reduce, mortality decrease and quality of life improve.
Detailed description
To investigate whether preventive home visits for healthy pensioners aged 75 years and over , can change the pattern of care utilization and if the quality of life can improve. To investigate if the results will last after the intervention has come to an end. The concept of care utilization can in this trial be clarified as: * use of primary health care * use of elderly care including elderly houses * mortality * use of hospital care The concept of quality of life will in this trial be measured with a number of self judgements. The trial is performed as a randomized controlled trial in a small rural community in the north of Sweden. The staff is professional health workers and the visits is performed in the pensioners own homes.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALPreventive home visits
Sponsors
Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Sweden
Umeå University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
75 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* older than 75 year * living in their own home * living in Nordmaling, Sweeden
Exclusion criteria
* any need of elderly care, long term care or frequent health care
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| use of health care facilities during two years 2000-2001 | — |
| all cause mortality during two years 2000 - 2001 | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| use of health care facilities 2002-2004 | — |
| all cause mortality during 2002-2004 | — |
Countries
Sweden
Outcome results
None listed