What this means
This study is looking at whether counting daily steps can show how frail older hospital patients are. It is still recruiting people, so no results are available yet.
Plain-English summary written by an AI model from the registry listing.
- Status
- Recruiting
- Who can join
- Ages 65 and over
- Where
- 1 site
The science
- Registered title
- Assessing a New Tool to Assess Frailty in Frail Hospitalized Elderly
- Trial ID
- NCT04366388 ↗
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Study type
- observational
- Conditions
- Frail Elderly Syndrome
- What is tested
- ActivPAL3 VT (PAL Technologies Ltd).
- Sponsor
- University of British Columbia
- Ages
- 65 Years to no maximum
- Dates
- First posted Apr 28, 2020 · updated May 1, 2026
Registry summary
The major purpose of this study is to establish the use of daily step counts as inexpensive, easy to measure marker for frailty and sarcopenia in an inpatient population of older adults.
Sites (1)
- Gerontology Research Lab, Dept. of Medicine, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, VGH Research Pavilion, Room 186-828 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada