Trial reportJournal of the American Geriatrics Society2011
Community aging in place, advancing better living for elders: a bio-behavioral-environmental intervention to improve function and health-related quality of life in disabled older adults.
Trial report in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 88 papers, 12 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
88 citing papers in PubMed, 12 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 199 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Community-based interventions to support aging in place and functional independence in older adults: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- Community-based complex interventions to sustain independence in older people, stratified by frailty: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2024Pooled it
- Community based complex interventions to sustain independence in older people: systematic review and network meta-analysis.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2024Pooled it
- The Relationship Between Physical Housing Characteristics, Housing Accessibility and Different Aspects of Health Among Community-Dwelling Older People: A Systematic Review.Journal of aging and health · 2024Pooled it
- Barriers and facilitating factors influencing implementation of occupational therapy home assessment recommendations: A mixed methods systematic review.Australian occupational therapy journal · 2022Pooled it
- The Effectiveness of Multicomponent Intervention on Daily Functioning among the Community-Dwelling Elderly: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Do Interventions Reducing Social Vulnerability Improve Health in Community Dwelling Older Adults? A Systematic Review.Clinical interventions in aging · 2022Pooled it
- Adjusted Indirect and Mixed Comparisons of Interventions for the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMs) of Disabled Adults: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Disparities in the Prevalence and Correlates of Disability in Older Immigrants in the USA: a Systematic Review of the Literature.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2019Pooled it
- Time-limited home-care reablement services for maintaining and improving the functional independence of older adults.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- Occupational Therapy Interventions for Productive Aging Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults.The American journal of occupational therapy : official publication of the American Occupational Therapy AssociationPooled it
- Effectiveness of the Interdisciplinary Home-bAsed Reablement Programme (I-HARP) on improving functional independence of people living with dementia: a multicentre, pragmatic, randomised, open-label, controlled trial.Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry · 2025Trial
- Gaming-Based Tele-Exercise Program to Improve Physical Function in Frail Older Adults: Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Trial
- Feasibility of a Multi-Component Strengths-Building Intervention for Caregivers of Persons With Heart Failure.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2023Trial
- Results of a multi-site pragmatic hybrid type 3 cluster randomized trial comparing level of facilitation while implementing an intervention in community-dwelling disabled and older adults in a Medicaid waiver.Implementation science : IS · 2022Trial
- Patterns of Home Environmental Modification Use and Functional Health: The Women's Health Initiative.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2020Trial
- Attention control group activities and perceived benefit in a trial of a behavioral intervention for older adults.Research in nursing & health · 2019Trial
- Effects of Reablement on the Independence of Community-Dwelling Older Adults with Mild Disability: A Randomized Controlled Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Trial
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12 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectivesTo determine effect size and acceptability of a multicomponent behavior and home repair intervention for low-income disabled older adults.
designProspective randomized controlled pilot trial.
settingParticipants' homes.
participantsForty low-income older adults with difficulties in one or more activities of daily living (ADLs) or two or more instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs).
interventionThe Community Aging in Place, Advancing Better Living for Elders (CAPABLE), coordinated occupational therapy, nursing, and handyman visits, was compared with attention-control visits. The intervention consisted of up to six visits with an occupational therapist, up to four visits with a nurse, and an average of $1,300 in handyman repairs and modifications. Each intervention participant received all components of the intervention clinically individualized to risk profile and goals. Each attention-control participant received the same number of visits as the intervention participants, involving sedentary activities of their choice. MEASUREMENT: PRIMARY OUTCOME: difficulty in performing ADLs and IADLs. SECONDARY OUTCOMES: health-related quality of life and falls efficacy.
resultsThirty-five of 40 adults (87%) completed the 6-month trial, and 93% and 100% of the control and intervention group, respectively, stated that the study benefited them. The intervention group improved on all outcomes. When comparing mean change in the intervention group with mean change in the control group from baseline to follow-up, the CAPABLE intervention had effect sizes of 0.63 for reducing difficulty in ADLs, 0.62 for reducing difficulty in IADLs, 0.89 for quality of life, and 0.55 for falls efficacy.
conclusionThe CAPABLE intervention was acceptable to participants and feasible to provide and showed promising results, suggesting that this multicomponent intervention to reduce disability should be evaluated in a larger trial.
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