This study aims to evaluate the feasibility and the impact on physical performance and falls occurence among geriatric inpatients hospitalized in acute care unit.
Having developed many tools to determine fall risk of 65 years and older patients, Angers University Hospital plans to develop a corrective action to prevent the occurrence of falls in this population. This study aims to assess the feasibility of a physical activity program with 3 difficulty levels (depending on the patient's risk of falling): easy (low fall risk), moderate (average fall risk) and difficult (high fall risk). The implementation process should be simply and fastly applicable in practice for routine care by paramedics.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
278
1. The participant must stay out of the bed 3 hours. This pre-required level prevents the occurrence of acute postural mismatch which can occur when elderly patients are bedridden and too long increases the risk of falling. 2. The participant stands standing in static equilibrium to a chair holding the back of it for 2 minutes. Depending on the patient's abilities, the exercise will be done on both feet or one foot. 3. The participant performs a transfer activity of sitting to standing repeated 5 times (FTSS test). According to the patient's abilities, the exercise will be done with physical assistance or not.
University Hospital
Angers, Maine et Loire, France
Number of participants in each category of fall risk having realized 75% and more of the exercises of at least one of the three difficulty levels of the physical activity program
The feasibility of the interventions of each fall risk category is defined as "at least 80% of the participants of a category having completed 75% and more of the exercises".
Time frame: up to 15 months
Change of number of patients having realized the Five Time Sit and Stand (FTSS) test.
Time frame: up to 15 months
For the patients having achieved FTSS test, the realization time (in seconds).
Time frame: up to 60 seconds
Measure (by the medical team) of the difficulty to set up and carry out the exercises
This measure will be assessed with a scale : "very easy" ; "easy" ; "feasible" ; "difficult" ; "impossible"
Time frame: up to 20 days
Time needed by the paramedical team to achieve the exercises
Time frame: up to 20 days
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