Active clinical trials for "Frailty"

This observational study explores the impact of cognitive impairment and frailty in older adults with advanced chronic kidney disease ]. The main question[s] it aims to answer are: What determines the time to initiate dialysis? Cognitive impairment or frailty? What does predict the time to death? Presence of frailty or cognitive impairment? What does correlate strongly with time-low health-related quality of life? frailty or cognitive impairment?

To investigate how measures of frailty, assessed during occupational therapy (OT) evaluation and intervention impact decision for advanced heart failure (HF) therapies and postoperative outcomes.

The purpose of this study is to develop an all-encompassing frailty model using laboratory and functional studies. A frailty model will help us determine prior to surgery who will require rehabilitation and skilled nursing needs beyond discharge. This model will also help us determine who will likely be readmitted and why they will be readmitted. Understanding these things can help us prevent some of them from occurring in the future.

Chronic kidney disease is associated with the loss of skeletal muscle mass and function. This process detrimentally impacts mobility, functional independence, and quality of life. Mounting evidence suggests that chronic kidney disease impairs skeletal muscle functioning by injuring mitochondria, the central energy producing units of cells. Potential treatment options to restore mitochondrial function include aerobic and weight bearing exercise and medications that directly improve mitochondrial energetics. Unfortunately, exercise programs may be difficult to implement in people who have chronic diseases, such as kidney disease.. Coenzyme Q10 (coQ10) and nicotinamide riboside (NR) are naturally occurring supplements that can directly improve mitochondrial efficiency. Both compounds help mitochondria produce more energy while generating less waste. The primary purpose of this study is to test whether coQ10 and NR can improve muscle function among people with chronic kidney disease. What we learn in this study may help us better understand the mechanisms of skeletal muscle impairment among people with kidney disease and ultimately improve their ability to be active and independent.

Randomized clinical trial to determine whether a multicomponent intervention will lead to improvements in mobility, self-care, mood, pain, and physical activity among frail and pre-frail older adults (as measured with the Essential Frailty Toolset; EFT) hospitalized for an acute cardiovascular illness.

To develop and investigate an unobtrusive technology for long-term monitoring of autonomic nervous system (ANS) function's response to daily physical stressors and exercise training for elderly patients with different frailty stages.

Increased life expectancy leads to population aging, increased morbidities and aging of hospitalized patients. The acquisition of frailty leads to worse outcomes derived from hospitalization, but although frailty has been related to aging, young patients admitted to Intensive Care Units (ICU) with frailty have also been found to have worse outcomes than non-frail patients. This unfavorable evolution could be related to the acquisition of the post-uci syndrome (physical, mental and cognitive sequelae at discharge from the ICU), since high frailty scores favor this syndrome. The use of frailty scales on admission to the ICU could provide early detection of patients most likely to develop post-ICU syndrome, regardless of age, and redirect our care to those who need it most. Some scales that measure frailty in elderly patients have been used in the ICU, but although they have been validated in their original language, they need to be adapted and validated in Spanish. Objectives. Adaptation and validation of the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) and the FRAIL Scale in ICU patients of different ages, in women and in men. Methodology. Study developed in two phases.Phase 1, adaptation to Spanish of the scales (translation, pilot, back-translation, correlation); Phase 2, analysis of their metric properties (Validity, Reliability, Sensitivity, Minimum important difference) by means of a multicenter observational study (7 ICUs in Spain), prospective, descriptive, of a cohort of critical patients with one-year follow-up (at 3, 6, 9 and 12 months after hospital discharge).

Pilot feasibility study of the ReVital Chemotherapy Online Resiliency Evaluation (CORE) program. As part of standard of care, patients starting a new chemotherapy regimen are referred to complete a pre-chemotherapy cancer rehabilitation evaluation (i.e., prehab) and invited to enroll in the ReVital-CORE program study. Once enrolled in ReVital-CORE, participants will complete a monthly online evaluation for 1 year. If frailty (or pre-frailty) is detected on any survey, physical or occupational therapy will be initiated for standard of care rehabilitation evaluation and treatment.

The aim of the current study, therefore, is to determine the feasibility of recruitment and adherence to resistance exercise training interventions performed at low and high loads, to volitional muscular failure, in a trial population that includes both healthy and frail older people.

What is the present, and expected, size and composition of the health and social care workforce required to provide care for the frail older population? As the population ages, robust workforce planning to meet future demands for health and social care by older people is needed. A lack of evidence in this areas has led to a mis-match between the health and social care demand from the ageing population and the current workforce capacity. The proposed study will use demand-led simulation modelling of the workforce required to address the specific challenge of providing health and social care for the growing numbers of older people living with frailty.