Lifestyle intervention development study to improve physical function in older adults with cancer: outcomes from Project LEAD.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Declines in physical functioning (PF) among elderly cancer patients threaten quality of life and the ability to maintain independence. Adherence to healthy lifestyle behaviors may prevent functional decline.

Patients and methods

Project Leading the Way in Exercise and Diet (LEAD), an intervention development study of the Pepper Older Americans Independence Center, aimed to determine whether breast and prostate cancer survivors (age 65+ years) assigned to a 6-month home-based diet and exercise intervention experienced improvements in PF when compared with an attention control arm receiving general health information. An accrual target was set at 420, and PF (Short Form-36 subscale), physical activity (Community Healthy Activities Models Program for Seniors), and diet

SUBMITTER: Demark-Wahnefried W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1532928 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature