Abstract
BACKGROUND: older adults face several modifiable barriers for engaging in physical activity (PA) programmes such as incontinence, loneliness and fear of falling. Enhancing PA programmes with behavioural components to support self-management of such barriers may increase the effectiveness to preserve functional capacity and independent living.
OBJECTIVE: this study aimed at assessing the effects of a complex active lifestyle intervention (CALSTI) on objective and self-report measures of functional capacity and disability in community-dwelling older adults.
SUBJECTS AND METHODS: about 215 older adults (79.9 ± 0.4 years) at increased risk of functional decline were randomly allocated to (i) CALSTI consisting of 12-weeks progressive explosive resistance training (24 sessions) enhanced by a 24-week multi-factorial self-management programme (8 sessions), or (ii) an extended version of the self-management intervention (SEMAI; 12 sessions) to reflect a reinforcement of usual care. The interventions were embedded in a nationally regulated preventive care pathway. Blinded assessors collected primary (the Short Physical Performance Battery; SPPB) and secondary outcome data (self-reported difficulty in activities of daily living, the short version of the Late-Life Function and Disability Index, and the EQ-health VAS scale) at baseline and after 12 and 24 weeks.
RESULTS: after 24 weeks, CALSTI led to a clinically superior increase in SPPB compared with SEMAI (+0.77 points, P < 0.01), and the CALSTI group also demonstrated improvements in selected self-reported outcomes.
CONCLUSIONS: a novel complex exercise and multi-factorial self-management intervention embedded in preventive care practice had large and clinically meaningful effects on a key measure of functional capacity and predictor of disability.
Original language | English |
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Article number | afac137 |
Pages (from-to) | 1-10 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Age and Ageing |
Volume | 51 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published (in print/issue) - 6 Jul 2022 |
Bibliographical note
© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Geriatrics Society. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com.Keywords
- Activities of Daily Living
- Aged
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Exercise
- Fear
- Humans
- Independent Living
- Quality of Life
- Self-Management
- behaviour change
- complex intervention
- older people
- physical function
- resistance training