Evolution and Adaptation to Caregiver of a Socio-geriatric Evaluation

NCT ID: NCT05062590

Last Updated: 2024-02-23

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 260 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-04-04
• Study Completion Date: 2026-03-31

Brief Summary

With the COVID-19 pandemic, elderly people (EP) living at home have seen their health deteriorated, thus increasing their needs in support and care. Indeed, while it was estimated that before the pandemic120 000 unattended living at home EP required care and services (taking bath, access to medication and food, etc.), the number doubled after COVID-19. Therefore, the waiting list for socio-medical services for unattended vulnerable clientele without a family doctor grew from 1300 à 1715 EP in a couple of months during the pandemic. With these numbers, it becomes clear that an intervention is needed. Truly, the Institut National d'Excellence en Santé et Services Sociaux (INESSS) conclude that it was pivotal to first identify the most vulnerable EP and second re-orient them according to their needs. Thus the investigator developed the Évaluation et orientation SOcio-GÉRiatrique (ESOGER) questionnaire available on a secure digital plateform enabling both a rapid evaluation and intervention to asses EP needs and provide the adequate ressources. Investigator's previous research has demonstrated that ESOGER is one of the rare clinical tools of first contact in telehealth while being global, multidimensional, and equitable. For this study, the investigator aims to evaluate the effect of ESOGER on EP physical and mental health, loss of autonomy, social isolation, quality of life and ressources consumption.

Conditions

Social Isolation; Aging

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Group Intervention

Experimental: Group 1 The intervention group will take the ESOGER questionnaire at month 0 and month 3 ( beginning and end) and receive recommendations following their needs.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Recommendations

Intervention Type: OTHER

Ressources recommendations and interventions curated to the needs of the EP such as refering them to a social activity for socially isolated EP

Group control

The participants will only take the ESOGER questionnaire at month 0 and month 3 without recommendations

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Recommendations

Ressources recommendations and interventions curated to the needs of the EP such as refering them to a social activity for socially isolated EP

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Aged 65 and more
• Living at home on the territory CIUSSS-Centre-Sud de l'île-de-Montréal (CCSMTL) of Jeanne-Mance
• Brief Geriatric Assessment (BGA) score of 1/14 or more defining a severly to milidly frail health.

Exclusion Criteria

• Principal address outside of the CCSMTL's Jeanne-Mance territory
• Participate at another clinical trial, to avoid interferences
• Not understand written or spoken French or English, questionnaires are only available in French and English.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 65 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Centre integre universitaire de sante et de services sociaux du Centre-Sud-de-l'Île-de-Montréal

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Olivier Beauchet

MD, PhD, Senior researcher, Director of laboratory

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

CRIUGM

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

Canada

Central Contacts

Olivier Beauchet, MD

Role: CONTACT

olivier.beauchet@umontreal.ca

514-340-3540 ext. 3637

Facility Contacts

Kévin Galéry

Role: primary

Other Identifiers

2022-616

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id