Reablement in community-dwelling older adults: a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There has been an increasing interest in reablement in Norway recently and many municipalities have implemented this form of rehabilitation despite a lack of robust evidence of its effectiveness. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of reablement in home-dwelling older adults compared with usual care in relation to daily activities, physical functioning, and health-related quality of life.

Methods

This is a parallel-group randomised controlled trial conducted in a rural municipality in Norway. Sixty-one home-dwelling older adults with functional decline were randomised to an intervention group (n = 31) or a control group (n = 30). The intervention group received ten weeks of multicomponent home-based rehabilitation. The Canadian Occupational

SUBMITTER: Tuntland H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4634595 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature