Randomised controlled trial of unsolicited occupational therapy in community-dwelling elderly people: the LOTIS trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The objective of this trial, the Leiden 85-Plus Occupational Therapy Intervention Study (LOTIS), was to assess whether unsolicited occupational therapy, as compared to no therapy, can decelerate the increase in disability in high-risk elderly people.

Design

This was a randomised controlled trial with 2-y follow-up.

Setting

The study took place in the municipality of Leiden in the Netherlands.

Participants

The participants were 402 community-dwelling 85-y-old people, with a Mini-Mental State Examination score of >18 points at baseline.

Interventions

Participants in the intervention group were visited by an occupational therapist who provided training and education about assistive devices that were already present and who gave recommendations and

SUBMITTER: de Craen AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1488896 | biostudies-literature | 2006 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature