NCT00386256

Home Telerehabilitation for Deconditioned Older Adults

Home Based Telerehabilitation for Deconditioned Older Adults

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 38 (actual)
• Sponsor: US Department of Veterans Affairs · Federal
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to develop a home exercise program for patients 60 years of age and over who are deconditioned following their discharge from the hospital, or recruited from GLA outpatient clinics. The program will be designed to monitor and improve patients' exercise behavior through the use of home technology, such as text messaging monitors.

Detailed description

The aim of this study is to develop and determine the feasibility of implementing a home exercise and functional status monitoring telerehabilitation program, known as TEL-REHAB, for older adults 60 years of age and over who are deconditioned following their discharge from the inpatient setting, or recruited from GLA outpatient clinics. Deconditioning is a modifiable risk factor for preventing institutionalization of frail elderly patients who would otherwise be able to live independently. Home exercise programs are an effective intervention to reduce the risk, but patient compliance with home exercise programs, and assessments of patients during home exercise programs, are barriers to achieving maximal benefits. Face-to-face visits with physical medicine professionals are an effective means to perform these functions, but are problematic because of professional time impacts and patient transportation problems. A TEL-REHAB program will empower these patients to take responsibility for their own health by providing ongoing communication with a healthcare provider. In this way, telerehabilitation may assist older adults to remain independent in their homes as long as possible.

Conditions

• Osteoarthritis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Health Buddy, Home telehealth technology	Exercise questions, educational messages, and clinical reminders have been programmed into the home telehealth technology and are administered daily via the Health Buddy(R) to evaluate the program's feasibility based on adherence rates, program completion rates, and safety.
OTHER	Telephone counseling

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-10-01
• Primary completion: 2008-05-01
• Completion: 2008-06-01
• First posted: 2006-10-11
• Last updated: 2014-08-15
• Results posted: 2014-08-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States