Preventing Falls in Older Adults With Cognitive Frailty
Recruiting
N/A
Interventional Study
Falls
Frailty
Mild Cognitive Impairment
No Placebo Group
Every participant receives an active treatment — no one gets a placebo.
Healthy Volunteers Welcome
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
At a Glance
- Age
- 65 – 89
- Sex
- Any
- Study type
- Interventional
- Purpose
- Prevention
- Participants needed
- 328 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- University of British Columbia · Other
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About This Trial
The Problem: The proposed trial will address the problem of how to effectively prevent subsequent falls in community-dwelling cognitively frail older adults with a history of falls.
Primary Question: In community-dwelling older adults with cognitive frailty and a history of falls, can a home-based exercise program with behavioural change techniques significantly reduce falls vs. health education …
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Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
* We will include individuals who: 1) are aged 70 to 89 years\*; 2) live in Greater Vancouver; 3) are community-dwelling (i.e., not residing in a nursing home or extended care unit); 4) experienced a non-syncopal fall in the prior 12 months; 5) scored \< 9/12 on the SPPB; 6) hav…
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