What this means
Researchers plan to test whether a health and social partner program helps older adults in the community care for themselves. The trial is still recruiting, so it does not yet show whether the program works.
Plain-English summary written by an AI model from the registry listing.
- Status
- Recruiting
- Who can join
- Ages 60 and over
- Where
- 1 site
The science
- Registered title
- Adopting a Health-social Partnership Program to Promote Health and Self-care Management Among Older Adults in the Community
- Trial ID
- NCT05621720 ↗
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Study type
- interventional
- Conditions
- Healthy Aging
- What is tested
- Case management, Social control call and usual are
- Sponsor
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Ages
- 60 Years to no maximum
- Dates
- First posted Nov 18, 2022 · updated Oct 17, 2024
Registry summary
Hong Kong has notably the longest life expectancy in the world. Ever-increasing demand and challenges are posing to the healthcare, social welfare, and elderly care service system. As a global public health strategy to address the increasing burdens, there is a strong urge for an effective approach to enhance the health and self-care ability among the older adults dwelling in the community. Literature suggested that the effectiveness of community-based self-care management programs is inconclusive. In addition, though the concept of the health-social partnership has been widely promoted to improve primary care, literature addressed that the multiple barriers existed throughout the collaboration. More evidence should be sought in the local context to evaluate the effectiveness of self-care complex interventions program among older adults.
Sites (1)
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong