A preventative lifestyle intervention for older adults (lifestyle matters): a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

to test whether an occupation-based lifestyle intervention can sustain and improve the mental well-being of adults aged 65 years or over compared to usual care, using an individually randomised controlled trial.

Participants

288 independently living adults aged 65 years or over, with normal cognition, were recruited from two UK sites between December 2011 and November 2015.

Interventions

lifestyle Matters is a National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommended multi-component preventive intervention designed to improve the mental well-being of community living older people at risk of decline. It involves weekly group sessions over 4 months and one to one sessions.

Main outcome measures

the primary outcome was mental well-being at 6 months

SUBMITTER: Mountain G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5860501 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature