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HEalthy Aging Team Supported Home-care Services (HEAT-YASAM)

Does Healthy Aging Team-supported Home-care Services Pilot Program Reduce ED Visits? A Prospective before-and After-intervention Study

Status
UNKNOWN
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT05993572
Acronym
HEAT-YASAM
Enrollment
2000
Registered
2023-08-15
Start date
2023-06-15
Completion date
2025-12-01
Last updated
2023-12-06

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

Conditions

Dementia, Depression, Drug Use, Frailty, Malnutrition, Old Age; Debility

Brief summary

Depending on the YASAM project which was established to home-visit evaluate community-dwelling older adults (80 years of age and over), we aimed to determine the prevalence (prevalence) of geriatric syndromes (dependence, frailty, malnutrition, depression, dementia, comorbidity burden, polypharmacy) in these individuals and to determine possible changes in the follow-up of the patients during the 2-year follow-up period. (HEAVEN trial)

Detailed description

Individuals over the age of 80 who will participate in the YASAM project will first be informed by phone and their appointments will be made. Subsequently, a home visit will be conducted after obtaining verbal and written consent from the patients and their relatives. The chronic diseases and medications of the patients will be questioned and controlled from the electronic data set. To determine the level of frailty and dependency, the Katz, Lawton-Brody, and Clinical Frailty scales will be filled in, respectively, by the previously trained health personnel, by interviewing their relatives. Mini-Cog, Mini Mental Status Assessment, Mini Nutrition Assessment, and Geriatric Depression (Yesavage) Assessments will be planned. According to dependency status, individuals will be re-evaluated in the 1st or 2nd month. If the patients are fully independent, control follow-up is planned in the 3rd month. Written file records will be created by obtaining the consent of the patients and their relatives at each patient visit. Each team will be responsible for the follow-up of 300 patients. It is planned to include a total of 6000 individuals in the first phase, which is carried out in 20 centers throughout the province of Balıkesir and whose coordination center is Atatürk city hospital. In the follow-ups, it is planned to include the whole cohort consisting of 40 thousand individuals over the age of 80, by increasing the number of teams. The short-term results of the patient's follow-up (1st, 3rd, and 6th-month results), changes in mortality, addiction, frailty level, and changes in nutrition and cognitive functions within the specified period will be evaluated as short-term results. It is aimed to record the long-term outcomes (1st and 2nd year) of the same variables. Since the whole population will be included in the study, sample size and power analysis were not performed.

Interventions

DIAGNOSTIC_TESTComprehensive Geriatric Assessment

Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments include functional status, fraility comorbidity, cognition, mental health, social support, nutrition, and geriatric syndromes

Sponsors

Provincial Health Services Authority British Columbia
CollaboratorOTHER
Gulhane Training and Research Hospital
Lead SponsorOTHER_GOV

Study design

Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
80 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

* 80 years and over older adults * individuals giving verbal and written consent for the YASAM project

Exclusion criteria

* \<80 years older adults * those who did not give verbal and written consent for the YASAM project

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Short term Healthy Aging status (changes dependency )1-,3-,6- monthOutcomes were evaluated according to the specific test Katz scales the 1 is minimum and 6 is maximum value for scale, and higher scores mean a better outcome, higher scores mean a better outcome for dependency)
Short term Healthy Aging status (changes in frailty level)1-,3-,6- monthOutcomes were evaluated according to the specific test (Fraility via Clinical fraility scales the 1 is minimum and 9 is maximum value for scale, and higher scores mean a worse outcome).
Short term Healthy Aging status (mortality)1-,3-,6- monthOutcomes were evaluated according to the national electronic database.
Short term Healthy Aging status (changes in nutrition)1-,3-,6- monthOutcomes were evaluated according to the specific test (MNA scale for nutritional status the 0 is minimum and 14 is maximum value for scale, and higher scores mean a better outcome).
Short term Healthy Aging status (changes in cognitive functions)1-,3-,6- monthOutcomes were evaluated according to the specific test (cognitive functions with MMSE scale, the 0 is minimum and 30 is maximum value for scale, and higher scores mean a better outcome)
Short term Healthy Aging status (changes in mood)1-,3-,6- monthOutcomes were evaluated according to the specific test (Outcomes were evaluated according to the specific test ( Yesavage for Depression status the 0 is minimum and 15 is maximum value for scale, and higher scores mean a worse outcome)
Short term Healthy Aging status (changes in mobility status)1-,3-,6- monthOutcomes were evaluated according to the specific test (Chair stand test higher scores (\>13,5 seconds) means a worse outcome for mobility status).
Long term Healthy Aging status (mortality)1- and 2- yearOutcomes were evaluated according to the national electronic database.
Long term Healthy Aging status (changes dependency )1- and 2- yearOutcomes were evaluated according to the specific test Katz scales the 1 is minimum and 6 is maximum value for scale, and higher scores mean a better outcome, higher scores mean a better outcome for dependency)
Long term Healthy Aging status (changes in frailty level)1- and 2- yearOutcomes were evaluated according to the specific test (Fraility via Clinical fraility scales the 1 is minimum and 9 is maximum value for scale, and higher scores mean a worse outcome.)
Long term Healthy Aging status (changes in nutrition)1- and 2- yearOutcomes were evaluated according to the specific test (MNA scale for nutritional status the 1 is minimum and 14 is maximum value for scale, and higher scores mean a better outcome).
Long term Healthy Aging status (changes in cognitive functions)1- and 2- yearOutcomes were evaluated according to the specific test (cognitive functions with MMSE scale, the 0 is minimum and 30 is maximum value for scale, and higher scores mean a better outcome).
Long term Healthy Aging status (changes in mood)1- and 2- yearOutcomes were evaluated according to the specific test ( Yesavage scale for Depression status the 0 is minimum and 15 is maximum value for scale, and higher scores mean a worse outcome).
Long term Healthy Aging status (changes in mobility status)1- and 2- yearOutcomes were evaluated according to the specific test (Outcomes were evaluated according to the specific test (Chair stand test higher scores (\>13,5 seconds) means a worse outcome for mobility status).

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 6, 2026