Disability Prevention Program Improves Life-Space and Falls Efficacy: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate the effects of a home-based disability prevention program on life-space and falls efficacy among low-income older adults.

Design

Single-blind two-arm randomized controlled trial.

Setting

Participants' homes.

Participants

Participants were low-income cognitively intact older adults (≥65 years old) with restricted daily activities. Our analytic sample for life-space (n = 194) and falls efficacy (n = 233) varied as the life-space measure was introduced 4 months after the trial began.

Intervention

Up to six 1-hour home visits with an occupational therapist; up to four 1-hour home visits with a registered nurse; and up to $1,300 worth of home repairs, modifications, and assistive devices with a handyman, during a course of 4 months.

SUBMITTER: Liu M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8344360 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature