Timely short-term specialised palliative home care for older people with frailty and their family: a mixed-methods pilot randomised controlled trial and process evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The primary study aims were to evaluate the implementation, mechanisms and context of a timely short-term specialised palliative care intervention for older people with frailty (Frailty+ intervention) as well as to assess the feasibility of a randomised controlled trial to evaluate Frailty+. Our secondary aim was to describe any preliminary effects of Frailty+.

Design

Pilot randomised controlled trial with process evaluation.

Setting/participants

We aimed to recruit 50 adults (≥70 years) with Clinical Frailty Scale score 5-7, and complex care needs and their main family carer, if available, from two Belgian hospitals on discharge.

Interventions

Patients were randomised to the Frailty+ intervention alongside standard care or standard care alone.

Out

SUBMITTER: de Nooijer K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11800206 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature