Prescribing Smart Aging: Integrating Health Systems With Community-Based Lifestyle Interventions

University of Kansas Medical Center219 enrolled

Overview

The purpose of this study is to test the efficacy of delivering an exercise and healthy lifestyle program, Smart Aging, to older adults.

The Smart Aging Program is designed to be scalable, implementable, and sustainable in the real world. This program joins patients and their clinicians with community-based fitness centers. The Smart Aging Program looks to use already existing resources to deliver an innovative program to increase physical activity in older adults. The program begins at the patient-physician level. The program is conducted in community-based fitness centers, the participant's home (home exercise, monitoring) and also sends physical activity data back to the clinician using mobile technology. The Smart Aging Program consists of a personalized and structured exercise program combined with lifestyle education and mobile-health monitoring. The exercise program includes a 12-week initiation phase, followed by a 40-week maintenance phase.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

219

Conditions

Aging Health Behavior

Interventions

Smart Aging ProgramBEHAVIORAL

Comprehensive lifestyle and fitness program designed to improve the health of older adults. The Smart Aging Program represents a package consisting of a dedicated health coach, mobile monitoring, specialized curriculum, and exercise opportunities.

Educational MaterialsBEHAVIORAL

Current standard of care. Includes education materials covering benefits of a healthy lifestyle.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 65 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Clinician referred * Ambulatory: walk unassisted and successfully complete the 6 minute walk test without rest * Sufficiently fluent in English to participate in study procedures * Sedentary or underactive by the Telephone Assessment of Physical Activity61 Exclusion Criteria: * Clinically-significant systemic or psychiatric illness that may affect safety or completion * Diagnosis of dementia; use of dementia medications (cholinesterase inhibitors, memantine) * Myocardial infarction or unstable coronary artery disease (e.g., angina, arrhythmia) in last 6 months. * Cerebrovascular event (stroke or transient ischemic attack) in the last 6 months * Cancer diagnosis in the last 2 years (except non-metastatic basal or squamous cell carcinoma or cancer in remission in the absence of treatment for at least 2 years) * Significant pain or musculoskeletal disorder limiting the ability to participate safely * Another member of the household enrolled in the study

Locations (1)

University of Kansas Medical Center

Kansas City, Kansas, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Change in Cardiorespiratory Fitness

Measured by peak oxygen consumption (VO2 peak) during treadmill testing.

Time frame: Change from Baseline to 12 Weeks

Change in Cardiorespiratory Fitness

Measured by peak oxygen consumption (VO2 peak) during treadmill testing.

Time frame: Change from Baseline to 52 Weeks

Secondary Outcomes

Changes in Insulin Resistance

Measured using Homeostasis Model Assessment 2.

Time frame: 52 Weeks

Change in Fat Mass

Measured using a dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scan.

Time frame: 52 Weeks

Change in Lean Mass

Measured using a dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scan.

Time frame: 52 Weeks

Change in Cholesterol

Changes in total cholesterol, LDL, and HDL will be measured.

Time frame: 52 Weeks

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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