Active clinical trials for "Frailty"

The objective of this study is to assess the feasibility and effectiveness of dedicated ambulator-assisted physical activity in lung transplant inpatients. The primary hypothesis is that an ambulator-assisted intervention for lung transplant patients will prove feasible and may result in improved frailty, hospital outcomes, including less need for inpatient rehabilitation and shorter length of stay in the hospital.

The purpose of this pilot study is to assess the feasibility of delivering a multicomponent prehabilitation and measuring patient-centered outcomes in older adults undergoing major surgery.

This project aims to improve the global outcome for an aging individual after a traumatic fall, through identifying conditions contributing to a fall and promoting recovery and rehabilitation. Through better understanding 'falling phenotype', the ultimate aim is to prevent future complications, as well as new falls and fractures in the growing older population.

Mortality following elective colorectal cancer surgery range between 2.5-6% and increase for the elderly and frail patient regardless of T-stage. Around 80% of the patients who present with a colon cancer and is in a condition where surgery is possible will be offered resection of the tumor. A part of the colon is always removed together with the lymph nodes in order to ensure that cancer cells are not left behind. The risk of lymph node metastasis is dependent on several histopathological characteristics of the tumor. The overall risk of lymph node metastases is less than 20 % in patients with early colon cancer. This indicates that the majority of patients with early colon cancer have no benefit of additional resection besides local tumor excision. The alternative to resecting a larger part of the bowel is to make more focused surgery only resecting a small part of the bowel part through a combination of laparoscopic and endoscopic techniques. This new organ sparing approach is called Combined Endoscopic Laparoscopic Surgery (CELS). The investigators aimed to examinate the hypothesis that organ preserving approach (CELS) provides superior quality of recovery in elderly frail patients with small colon cancers when compared with standard surgery in RCT.

Frailty, the decline in physical and cognitive reserves leading to vulnerability to stressors is increasingly being recognized as a public health concern. Although multiple measures exist that can identify frail patients, very little is known about how or when to intervene. Sarcopenia, or the degree of muscle wasting, is closely correlated to frailty and patient outcomes. This is a prospective cohort study of critically ill patients to identify modifiable risk factors of sarcopenia, as potential targets to reduce frailty.

This study is to elucidate the possible mechanisms of SSE by examining brain activation differences between SSE patterns and usual walking, as well as the relationship between brain activity and SSE performance, between cognitive function and SSE performance, and between physical performance and SSE performance in frail elders with MCI.

Standard risk prediction models in cardiac surgery (such as EuroSCORE II or STS score) are designed to analyze solely the risk of short-term postoperative mortality. The postoperative morbidity, the ability to rehabilitate or the mid-term survival are not addressed by these means. Recently there have been some reports that addition of physical performance testing to the standard prediction models may provide prognostic value. There is a wide scale of various physical performance and frailty tests that could be used for this purpose, but they have not been confronted with each other yet. Moreover, the postoperative physical rehabilitation has not been objectively assessed in larger scale despite the significant improvement in technology. The hypothesisis of the study is that the preoperative outcomes of physical performance and frailty testing are able to predict the patient's reconvalescence after cardiac surgery in the short- and mid-term postoperatively. The aim is to analyze a set of tests with regard to their ability to predict postoperative reconvalescence, including the objective activity assessment (using Actigraph wGT3X-BT activity tracking device). Secondarily, the investigators aim to follow the patients up to 1 year postoperatively in terms of evaluating their mid-term outcomes.

The patients included in PRÄP-GO and the corresponding comparison cohorts will be offered to participate in this complementary study in order to be able to carry out a detailed characterization and phenotyping of the frailty complex.

In this pilot study, we will investigate whether - with the current dosing regimens, used in the Ghent University Hospital - pharmacodynamic targets regarding beta-lactam antibiotics (more specific Amoxicilline-Clavulanate, Piperacillin-Tazobactam and Temocillin) are attained in frail patients admitted to the geriatric department.

The aging of the French population is a major public health issue. Frailty is a reversible clinical state between optimal healthy aging and pathological aging. Early detection of frailty makes it possible to identify people aged 65 or over who are at risk of developing or worsen dependency and to offer them appropriate medical and/or social care adapted to their needs. The multidimensional screening program known as "ICOPE" (for "Integrated Care of Older People") promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO) aims to prevent functional decline worldwide and improve the well-being of older people. To support healthy aging, 6 intrinsic abilities are to be screened according to ICOPE: visual impairment, hearing impairment, depressive symptoms, locomotor abilities, cognitive decline and vitality. This program is intended to be developed in each country and adapted to the territories of action. The Mauriac and Vichy community health basins have a proportion of elderly people (≥60 years old) that is much higher than regional and national data, justifying the regional and national data, justifying the chosen action territories. The epidemiological characteristics of the French population and of the action territory made it possible to add to the following themes to the ICOPE recommendations: socio-economic situation, assistance to caregivers, vaccinations, drug iatrogeny, alcohol consumption, cardiovascular risk and cancer screening. The ICOPE process is organized in 5 steps: a community screening and a relay to the general practitioner to ensure a follow-up, an primary care in case of abnormality, evaluated at 3 months and then 6 months, establishment of a plan of care if necessary, possible referral to a specialist and mobilization of community resources mobilization of community resources and support for caregivers if needed. The hypothesis is that conducting a fragility screening in a rural area (Mauriac health (Mauriac health basin) and a semi-urban area (Vichy health basin) would allow an effective would allow an effective allocation of expenses. In more detail, the costs are direct medical, direct non-medical, indirect and intangible costs, and efficiency is measured by measured by the quality of life score (LEIPAD). The hypothesis is that the early detection of people's frailties and their management improves their quality of life