Healthy Lifetime - Phase 2

NCT ID: NCT05920733

Last Updated: 2025-10-15

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 120 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2023-07-05
• Study Completion Date: 2026-10-01

Brief Summary

HealthyLifetime (HL) is a person-centered program that enables older adults to maximize health and optimize functioning - the necessary requisite to successfully remaining independent in their preferred home setting as long as possible, i.e., to age in place.

Detailed Description

HL seeks to intervene early in the aging process when individuals have the best chance for longer term benefits of changing their health behavior, as a means to stave off functional decline, and minimize the onset or exacerbation of chronic conditions. And, for individuals who are experiencing any of the barriers described above, our HL program's Nurse Coaches are prepared and experienced in helping them achieve their highest level of functioning and self-care capacity, while integrating and collaborating with, but not duplicating, their medical services such as primary care, specialty care, and case management or medical social services. While the latter medically oriented services support clinical management, they do not focus on helping older adults maximize health and function by building self-care capacity, long term health behavior change capacity and the functional resilience necessary to sustain or regain independent living.

Conditions

Aging Well

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

HealthyLifetime Group

This project is designed to prepare and equip the participant for improved self-care capacity, motivational insight, health-related problem solving and decision-making.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Nurse-led health coaching

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

This project is an 6-month program providing an initial 2-month intensive evaluation and personalized virtual individual health coaching experience that is designed to prepare and equip the participant for improved self-care capacity, motivational insight, health-related problem solving and decision-making. This intensive period will then be followed by monthly 30-minute Nurse Coach assessment and individual coaching 'check-in' virtual visits, continued use of the electronic platform tools and health tracking system, and access to group 'virtual coaching' on tailored topics of interest to the cohort.

Interventions

Nurse-led health coaching

This project is an 6-month program providing an initial 2-month intensive evaluation and personalized virtual individual health coaching experience that is designed to prepare and equip the participant for improved self-care capacity, motivational insight, health-related problem solving and decision-making. This intensive period will then be followed by monthly 30-minute Nurse Coach assessment and individual coaching 'check-in' virtual visits, continued use of the electronic platform tools and health tracking system, and access to group 'virtual coaching' on tailored topics of interest to the cohort.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

HealthyLifetime

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Be able to read, speak English and hear - but may use glasses or hearing aids, if needed;
• Be able to tell us their age, their date of birth, address, and phone number, as well as write down and explain their health problems;
• Have their own computer or iPad (Tablet) with an Internet connection, a working camera and microphone. and
• Be able to use their computer/tablet to connect to video chat sessions like Zoom in a private space in their home or a private room.

Exclusion Criteria

• People who, in the last month, have used the Emergency Room (ER) or stayed in the hospital.
• Are not verified users of Medicaid Home Help services [we will check with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Service to verify that you receive these services using your name, date of birth, and Medicaid identification number];
• Have a new major health problem that they are seeing a doctor about more than once per month;
• Have been told their illness is not curable;
• Cannot remember their name, date of birth or their health problems;
• Cannot use glasses or a hearing aid to see or hear well enough to read materials on the computer or talk to the nurse easily; and,
• Do not have, or cannot use, a computer, iPad or other device with the Internet at home to use Zoom (e.g., internet streaming).

• Minimum Eligible Age: 30 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Michigan Department of Health and Human Services

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of Michigan

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Kathleen Potempa

Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Kathleen Potempa, PhD

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

University of Michigan

Locations

University of Michigan School of Nursing

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

United States

Central Contacts

Margaret Calarco, PhD

Role: CONTACT

mcalarco@umich.edu

734-647-3857

Kathleen Potempa, PhD

Role: CONTACT

potempa@umich.edu

734-615-0085

Facility Contacts

Marge Calarco

Role: primary

mcalarco@umich.edu

734-647-3857

Alexis J Ellis

Role: backup

alexisel@med.umich.edu

734-647-2676 ext. Potempa

Other Identifiers

HUM00223787

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id