Feasibility and effects of preventive home visits for at-risk older people: design of a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The search for preventive methods to mitigate functional decline and unwanted relocation by older adults living in the community is important. Preventive home visit (PHV) models use infrequent but regular visits to older adults by trained practitioners with the goal of maintaining function and quality of life. Evidence about PHV efficacy is mixed but generally supportive. Yet interventions have rarely combined a comprehensive (biopsychosocial) occupational therapy intervention protocol with a home visit to older adults. There is a particular need in the USA to create and examine such a protocol.

Methods/design

The study is a single-blind randomized controlled pilot trial designed to assess the feasibility, and to obtain preliminary efficacy estimates, of an interv

SUBMITTER: Cutchin MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2797508 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature