Trial reportContemporary clinical trials2013
Experience Corps: a dual trial to promote the health of older adults and children's academic success.
Trial report in Contemporary clinical trials, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 53 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Experience Corps Trial: Improving Health of Older Populations Through Generativity
Enhancing the Health-Promoting Effects of Older Adults' Activity Portfolios: The Development, Feasibility and Initial Efficacy of an Ecologically Sensitive Intervention
Who cites it
53 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 131 citations in OpenAlex.
- Health benefits and harms of older adult volunteering: mixed methods systematic review.The Gerontologist · 2026Pooled it
- Late-life Cognitive Activity and Dementia: A Systematic Review and Bias Analysis.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2016Pooled it
- Intergenerational Programmes bringing together community dwelling non-familial older adults and children: A Systematic Review.Archives of gerontology and geriatricsPooled it
- Using Cognitive Intraindividual Variability to Measure Intervention Effectiveness: Results from the Baltimore Experience Corps Trial.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2021Trial
- A Community Choir Intervention to Promote Well-Being Among Diverse Older Adults: Results From the Community of Voices Trial.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2020Trial
- The association of a novel cognitive frailty index and physical functioning in older at-risk adults.Aging & mental health · 2020Trial
- Variety of Enriching Early-Life Activities Linked to Late-Life Cognitive Functioning in Urban Community-Dwelling African Americans.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2019Trial
- Associations of Angiotensin Converting Enzyme-1 and Angiotensin II Blood Levels and Cognitive Function.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2018Trial
- Positive Expectations Regarding Aging Linked to More New Friends in Later Life.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2017Trial
- E pluribus unum: Harmonization of physical functioning across intervention studies of middle-aged and older adults.PloS one · 2017Trial
- Hippocampal sub-regional shape and physical activity in older adults.Hippocampus · 2016Trial
- The Baltimore Experience Corps Trial: Enhancing Generativity via Intergenerational Activity Engagement in Later Life.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2016Trial
- Effect of Community Volunteering on Physical Activity: A Randomized Controlled Trial.American journal of preventive medicine · 2016Trial
- Impact of the Baltimore Experience Corps Trial on cortical and hippocampal volumes.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2015Trial
- Impact of Experience Corps(®) participation on school climate.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2015Trial
- Low-intensity daily walking activity is associated with hippocampal volume in older adults.Hippocampus · 2015Trial
- A Pilot Randomized Trial of an Intervention to Enhance the Health-Promoting Effects of Older Adults' Activity Portfolios: The Engaged4Life Program.Journal of gerontological social workTrial
- Developing Digital Platforms to Help Older Adults Stay Physically and Socially Active: Co-Design Study to Develop a Toolkit and Evaluate Its Impact.JMIR aging · 2026Article
- Impact of an Intergenerational Service Learning Program on Goal Attainment Among Homebound Older Adults:: A Multi-Site Community Study.Delaware journal of public health · 2026Article
- Rethinking health-care systems to tackle social isolation and frailty.The Lancet. Public health · 2026Review
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Authors and funding
19 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundAs the population ages, older adults are seeking meaningful, and impactful, post-retirement roles. As a society, improving the health of people throughout longer lives is a major public health goal. This paper presents the design and rationale for an effectiveness trial of Experience Corps™, an intervention created to address both these needs. This trial evaluates (1) whether senior volunteer roles within Experience Corps™ beneficially impact children's academic achievement and classroom behavior in public elementary schools and (2) impact on the health of volunteers.
methodsDual evaluations of (1) an intention-to-treat trial randomizing eligible adults 60 and older to volunteer service in Experience Corps™, or to a control arm of usual volunteering opportunities, and (2) a comparison of eligible public elementary schools receiving Experience Corps™ to matched, eligible control schools in a 1:1 control:intervention school ratio. OUTCOMES: For older adults, the primary outcome is decreased disability in mobility and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL). Secondary outcomes are decreased frailty, falls, and memory loss; slowed loss of strength, balance, walking speed, cortical plasticity, and executive function; objective performance of IADLs; and increased social and psychological engagement. For children, primary outcomes are improved reading achievement and classroom behavior in Kindergarten through the 3rd grade; secondary outcomes are improvements in school climate, teacher morale and retention, and teacher perceptions of older adults. SUMMARY: This trial incorporates principles and practices of community-based participatory research and evaluates the dual benefit of a single intervention, versus usual opportunities, for two generations: older adults and children.
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