NCT03607136

Early Detection of Disability and Health Promotion for Community-dwelling Elderly

Department of Physical Therapy, Tzu Chi University

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 50 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study evaluates the effects of exercise intervention on muscle strength and walking speed for the community-dwelling elderly. Half of the participants will receive exercise training, while the other half will maintain their usual activities of daily living.

Detailed description

Physical inactivity can result in physical frailty and sarcopenia. Physical frailty and sarcopenia are two common and mostly overlapping geriatric conditions, which may cause negative consequences of aging, such as disability, hospitalization and mortality. Regular physical activity has been suggested to maintain or improve functional capacity and body composition, as well as delay aging process. Nevertheless, inactivity prevalence still significantly increases among older adults, especially those with a disability. One of the probable reasons is that the use of physical activities or exercise interventions is not tailored to the needs and capabilities of the elderly.

Conditions

• Elderly
• Sarcopenia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	exercise training	Aerobic exercises, strengthening exercises, flexibility training for 60min, twice a week for 12 weeks

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-08-01
• Primary completion: 2019-07-01
• Completion: 2020-07-01
• First posted: 2018-07-31
• Last updated: 2018-07-31