NCT04460742

CAPABLE Transitions: A Home Health-Based Intervention for the Hospital or Post-Acute Care Facility-to-Home Transition

CAPABLE Transitions: A Randomized, Unblinded, 60-Subject Clinical Trial of an Occupational Therapy-Led In-Home Intervention to Help Older Adults Transition to Their Homes Following Hospital or Post-Acute Care Facility Discharge

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 31 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Rochester · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This clinical study is designed to test the feasibility of a new intervention, CAPABLE Transitions. CAPABLE Transitions is based on the Community Aging in Place, Advancing Better Living for Elders (CAPABLE) intervention designed by Dr. Sarah Szanton at Johns Hopkins University. Similar to CAPABLE, CAPABLE Transitions consists of an occupational therapy (OT)-led intervention in which the study OT, nurse, and handyman deliver an in-home intervention over 3-4 months. This intervention is designed to help with the transition of care from a hospital or post-acute care facility discharge as well as to optimize functioning and home safety. This clinical study plans to recruit a total of 60 older adults with and without dementia admitted to a home health agency following discharge from a hospital or post-acute care facility. Given that this is a feasibility study, it is not designed or powered to test hypotheses.

Detailed description

This pilot study is a randomized, care-as-usual (CAU)-comparator, unblinded clinical trial of an occupational therapy (OT)-led in-home intervention designed to help older adults successfully return to and remain in their homes following discharge from a hospital or post-acute care facility (e.g., skilled nursing or inpatient rehabilitation facilities). This intervention is called CAPABLE Transitions. In total, 60 adults (36 in the intervention arm, 24 in the CAU arm) aged 65 years and older recently discharged from a hospital or post-acute care facility and admitted to a Medicare-certified home health agency (CHHA) with and without dementia will be recruited. This pilot study's main outcomes relate to the feasibility of the study. These outcomes include study recruitment and retention, fidelity to and perceived benefit of the intervention, and data completeness with regard to clinical outcomes (e.g., home time, quality of life, and health care utilization). This study will recruit English-speaking adults aged 65 years and older who live in the Rochester region and are admitted to a CHHA following a hospital or post-acute care facility stay. There are two treatment groups. The intervention group will receive CAPABLE Transitions as well as CHHA CAU services. The CAU group will receive CHHA CAU services, which can include nursing, health aide, medical social work, and occupational, physical, and speech therapy services. CHHA clinicians will determine the types and duration of CHHA services that the study participants receive; these services will be completely independent from the research study. Assessment interviews will be conducted at baseline as well as at three and six month follow-up. Interviews will assess sociodemographics, health and functioning, mental health and cognitive functioning, home environment, medical services use, and intervention feedback. Information also will be extracted on medical conditions, medications, communication with providers, and services utilization from participants' medical records.

Conditions

• Care Transitions
• Dementia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	CAPABLE Transitions	The CAPABLE Transitions intervention group will receive an occupational therapy-led multidisciplinary in-home intervention in which the study occupational therapist (\<6 visits), registered nurse (\<5 visits), and handyman (\<2 visits) work with participants over 3-4 months. This intervention group also will receive home health agency care as usual services. CAPABLE Transitions in embedded within a home health agency and includes a care transitions emphasis.
BEHAVIORAL	Home Health Agency Care	Both the CAPABLE Transitions intervention and care as usual treatment arms will receive home health agency care as usual services, which can include nursing, health aide, medical social work, and occupational, physical, and speech therapy services. Home health agency clinicians will determine the types and duration of CHHA services that the study participants receive; these services will be completely independent from the research study.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-03-18
• Primary completion: 2023-05-19
• Completion: 2023-05-19
• First posted: 2020-07-08
• Last updated: 2023-08-01
• Results posted: 2023-08-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States