Multicomponent Intervention and Long-Term Disability in Older Adults: A Nonrandomized Prospective Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objectives

To evaluate the long-term association between a multicomponent intervention program and disability in socioeconomically vulnerable older adults.

Design

This was a nonrandomized prospective intervention trial.

Setting

The setting was a community.

Participants

Participants included older Koreans living alone or receiving government assistance from a low-income program.

Intervention

The intervention was a 24-week multicomponent program compromising group exercise, nutritional supplementation, management of depression, deprescribing, and home hazard reduction (n = 187) versus usual care (n = 196).

Measurements

The number of dependencies in 17 basic and instrumental activities of daily living was measured every 3 months for 30 mon

SUBMITTER: Park CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7969416 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature