Rapid Transition to Telehealth Group Exercise and Functional Assessments in Response to COVID-19.

ABSTRACT: Exercise is critical for health maintenance in late life. The COVID-19 shelter in place and social distancing orders resulted in wide-scale interruptions of exercise therapies, placing older adults at risk for the consequences of decreased mobilization. The purpose of this paper is to describe rapid transition of the Gerofit facility-based group exercise program to telehealth delivery. This Gerofit-to-Home (GTH) program continued with group-based synchronous exercise classes that ranged from 1 to 24 Veterans per class and 1 to 9 classes offered per week in the different locations. Three hundred and eight of 1149 (27%) Veterans active in the Gerofit facility-based programs made the transition to the telehealth delivered classes. Participants' physical performance testing continued remotely

SUBMITTER: Jennings SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7739082 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature