Meal Delivery and Exercise
Recruiting
N/A
Interventional Study
Frailty
No Placebo Group
Every participant receives an active treatment — no one gets a placebo.
At a Glance
- Age
- 60 and older
- Sex
- Any
- Study type
- Interventional
- Purpose
- Supportive Care
- Participants needed
- 100 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston · Other
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About This Trial
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of a home-based exercise program administered through Meals on wheels (MOW) on gait speed and frailty status and to assess the association between novel serum biomarkers (70 kilodalton heat shock proteins (HSP70),Macrophage Inflammatory Proteins(MIP1b), soluble IL-6 receptor alpha-chain (sIL-6R)) and established but non-specific frailty biomarke…
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Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
* homebound (normally unable to leave the home unassisted)
* frail or prefrail by The Fried Frailty Phenotype (FFP)
* medically stable
Exclusion Criteria:
* robust by FFP
* have Mini-Cog score \<3 and/or are unable to follow instructions
* have a pre-diagnosed terminal illness…
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