Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a home-based functional exercise programme for community-dwelling frail older adults, ACTIVE-AGE@home, provided by professionals and volunteers: protocol of a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT: Between 2020 and 2050, the world's population aged 80 years and over will triple, drastically increasing the prevalence of frailty and associated healthcare costs. Multimodal exercise programmes have proven to be an ideal countermeasure for frailty, but the current Flemish standard of care does not include them. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the home-based exercise programme for frail community-dwelling older adults (>70 years), ACTIVE-AGE@home, on frailty-associated outcomes, when delivered by professionals or volunteers, as well as its cost-effectiveness. A pragmatic randomised controlled trial will be conducted. Participants will be randomised into three parallel groups using permuted block randomisation. There will be two intervention groups: in one group, t

SUBMITTER: Vrancken D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11977484 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature