NCT00218842

The Effect on Function of Increasing Activity for Nursing Home Residents

Physical and Daily Activity for Residents in a Nursing Home Setting. -A Nordic Multi-Centre Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 125 (actual)
• Sponsor: Norwegian University of Science and Technology · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

As designs of existing outcome studies are disparate and do not always relate well to a Swedish context, the need for further studies is obvious. Also, an empirical theory drawn from the best practice supporting autonomy and wellbeing for clients in a nursing home setting has not yet been fully depicted. The study described below intends to fill a gap in knowledge related to the effect of enhanced activities of daily living (ADL)-training, physical, and daily activities and staff education in a nursing home setting, based on a theory- and evidence-based intervention programme in a Swedish as well as a Nordic health care context. The aims of the study are to describe the impact of an individually tailored intervention program, in a nursing home setting, on: * Physical capacity * Degree of dependence in ADL * Long-term participation in physical and/or daily activities * Self-rated wellbeing

Detailed description

The Trondheim study has additional aims to assess the impact of intervention on: * Urinary incontinence * Falls

Conditions

• Frailty
• Nursing Home Residents

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Individualized exercise	individualized exercise, physical activity and training in daily life situations given by trained physical therapists and occupational therapists

Timeline

• Start date: 2005-10-01
• Primary completion: 2009-10-01
• Completion: 2009-12-01
• First posted: 2005-09-22
• Last updated: 2014-03-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway