Preventing and approaching crises for frail community-dwelling patients through innovative care (PRACTIC): study protocol for a process evaluation of a complex intervention in home care service.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The prevalence of frailty increases with older age. Frail and/or multimorbid patients are at risk for experiencing a crisis. Crises are major stressors for the patient, informal caregivers and formal caregivers and often lead to adverse events and hospitalization. The ongoing effectiveness study in the Preventing and approaching crises for frail community-dwelling patients through innovative care (PRACTIC) study is a cluster randomized controlled trial. This study will test the effectiveness of an adapted version of a biopsychosocial person-centred model, the Targeted Interdisciplinary Model for Evaluation and Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms (TIME), to prevent and resolve crises for frail community-dwelling people receiving home care services. This current study p

SUBMITTER: Dalbak ETG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12121081 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature