Does functionally based activity make a difference to health status and mobility? A randomised controlled trial in residential care facilities (The Promoting Independent Living Study; PILS)

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Does functionally based activity make a difference to health status and mobility? A randomised controlled trial in residential care facilities (The Promoting Independent Living Study; PILS)

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Objectives: to determine whether a repetitive activities of daily living (ADL) activity programme improves health status, life satisfaction and mobility for older people living in residential care. Design: cluster randomised controlled trial. Setting: five low-level dependency residential care homes in Auckland, New Zealand. Participants: one hundred and forty-nine older residents (mean age 84.7 years). Intervention: trained research staff worked with residents in intervention wards to set a ...

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2008-01

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Peri, Kathryn / Kerse, Ngaire / Robinson, Elizabeth / Parsons, Matthew / Parsons, John / Latham, N

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http://hdl.handle.net/2292/7855

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older people / functional exercises / goal setting / long-term care / randomised controlled trial / elderly / PHYSICAL-ACTIVITY / OLDER ADULTS / EXERCISE / INTERVENTIONS / IMPROVE / LIFE

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