NCT05452395

Post-acute Care for Patients With Frailty

Integrated Post-Acute Care Program for Frail Elderly

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 254 (actual)
• Sponsor: Taipei City Hospital · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Acute illness could be enormous stress for frail people. Combining comprehensive geriatric assessment and multifactorial intervention has positive effects on frail community older adults. However, few studies investigated the effects of post-acute care (PAC) in frail older patients who just recovered from acute hospitalization. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of PAC on frail older adults in Taiwan.

Detailed description

Frail patients aged \>= 75 were recruited and divided into PAC or control groups. The PAC group received comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) and multifactorial intervention for two to four weeks. The control group received CGA only. The primary outcomes were 90-day emergency room visits, readmissions, and mortality after PAC.

Conditions

• Frailty
• Retrospective Study

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Post-acute care	A personalized care program, focusing on managing geriatric syndromes and improving functional performances. Strength training, activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) practice, basic mobility training, reconditioning exercise, and home environment assessment and modification.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-06-19
• Primary completion: 2020-12-31
• Completion: 2020-12-31
• First posted: 2022-07-11
• Last updated: 2022-07-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan