Status:
COMPLETED
The Clinical Evaluation of Continuous Assistance Offered to Older People Living Independently.
Lead Sponsor:
Him SA
Collaborating Sponsors:
Ziekenhuis Netwerk Antwerpen (ZNA)
EuroCross
Conditions:
Frailty
Eligibility:
All Genders
65+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The clinical evaluation of the HOMESWEETHOME project sets out to assess the long-term effects of continuous assistance offered by the HOMESWEETHOME services to older people living independently. The t...
Detailed Description
The HOMESWEETHOME clinical trial is conducted as a multi-centre randomised control trial (RCT), across four pilot sites. The trial design, analysis and reporting follow the "Revised CONSORT - Consolid...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Aged 65 years or over.
- Living at home or in the community, i.e. not in a nursing home, acute or sub-acute clinical or care setting.
- Scoring "mildly frail" or "moderately frail" in Edmonton Frail Scale (EFS).
Exclusion
- Not willing to participate (e.g. no signing informed consent form).
- Living situation not suitable for independent living (also including long planned durations of absence from home).
- Physically, mentally or otherwise unable to use and / or operate HOMESWEETHOME devices / instruments.
- Unable to administer self-assessment measurements (e.g. monitoring vital signs; questionnaires).
- Significant impairment of language comprehension or expression (e.g. aphasia).
- Active medical illness with a significant shortened life expectancy (\< 6 months), based on mortality prognosis2.
- Living without access to ISDN or ADSL service.
- Living with another HOMESWEETHOME participant in the same home.
- Completely dependent on others for the activities of daily living.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
December 1 2010
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
July 1 2013
Estimated Enrollment :
2010 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01218373
Start Date
December 1 2010
End Date
July 1 2013
Last Update
January 25 2017
Active Locations (4)
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1
ZNA
Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium
2
Netwell Centre
Dublin, Ireland
3
Viale P.L. Nervi, Centro Commerciale Latinafiori, Torre Girasoli, 4100 Latina
Latina, Lazio Regon, Italy, 04100
4
Badalona Serveis Assistencials
Badalona, Catalonia, Spain, 08911