Clinical trials: Frailty in Aging
Surgery, Aging
Preparing Older Adults for Major Surgery With Preoperative Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments
The researchers will conduct observations, interviews, and focus groups with clinicians, staff and patients of the Perioperative Optimization of Senior Health (POSH) clinic, which conducts preoperative comprehensive geriatric…
- Conditions
- Surgery, Aging, Health Care Utilization, Frailty
- Trial name
- NCT06184919
- Testing
- Process Mapping: Observations, Process Mapping: Interviews, Process Mapping: Focus Group
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
Sarcopenia, Frailty
Implementation of ProMuscle in Daily Practice
Implementation of a previously shown (cost-)effective combined lifestyle intervention for community living older adults, ProMuscle, in at least four of the eight communities of the 'Foodvalley' in the Netherlands.
- Conditions
- Sarcopenia, Frailty, Aging Problems
- Trial name
- PUMP-fit (NCT05672004)
- Testing
- PUMP-fit strategy (implementation toolbox), Implementation as usual
- Where
- Netherlands
- Volunteers
- 27 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- UMC Utrecht
Frailty, Physical Disability
Vitamin D and Calcium Supplementation at Danish Nursing Homes
Nursing home residents are in high risk of vitamin D deficiency, which negatively affects bone health. Vitamin D and calcium supplements have shown to increase bone density and reduce fracture risk and may affect daily physical…
- Conditions
- Frailty, Physical Disability, Aging, Muscle Weakness
- Trial name
- NCT04956705
- Testing
- Vitamin D and calcium
- Where
- 2 sites in Denmark
- Volunteers
- 109 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University College Copenhagen
Frailty, Emergencies
ER2 Frailty Levels and Incident Adverse Health Events in Older Community Dwellers
Older adults' health and functional status are heterogeneous because of the various cumulative effects of chronic diseases and physiologic decline, contributing to a vicious cycle of increased frailty 1-4.
- Conditions
- Frailty, Emergencies, Aging
- Trial name
- NCT04431986
- Testing
- No intervention: secondary use of a database
- Volunteers
- 1,741 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Jewish General Hospital
Aging
Proximity Alarms to Reduce Patient Falls
The purpose of this study is to test an intervention to introduce and implement proximity alarms on the risk of falls in hospitalized patients.
- Trial name
- NCT00183053
- Testing
- BedEx Patient Occupancy Monitoring System
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 10,000 people
- Sponsor
- National Institute on Aging (NIA)