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Adopting a Health-social Partnership Program to Promote Health and Self-care Management Among Older Adults in the Community
Sponsor: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Summary
Hong Kong has notably the longest life expectancy in the world. Ever-increasing demand and challenges are posing to the healthcare, social welfare, and elderly care service system. As a global public health strategy to address the increasing burdens, there is a strong urge for an effective approach to enhance the health and self-care ability among the older adults dwelling in the community. Literature suggested that the effectiveness of community-based self-care management programs is inconclusive. In addition, though the concept of the health-social partnership has been widely promoted to improve primary care, literature addressed that the multiple barriers existed throughout the collaboration. More evidence should be sought in the local context to evaluate the effectiveness of self-care complex interventions program among older adults.
Official title: Adopting a Health-social Partnership Program to Promote Health and Self-care Management Among Older Adults in the Community: an Effectiveness-implementation Hybrid Design
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
60 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
788
Start Date
2022-06-06
Completion Date
2025-04-30
Last Updated
2024-10-17
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Conditions
Interventions
Case management
On enrolment, the nurse case manager will perform the initial comprehensive assessment based on the Omaha domains of environment, psychosocial, physiological and health-related behavior. The nurse case manager will execute the intervention scheme of teaching, guidance \& counseling, treatments \& procedure, case management, and/or surveillance, with the mutual goal set with clients to promote health and self-efficacy. Home visits and telephone calls will be employed. The referral network to health and social service will be activated as appropriate.
Social control call and usual are
Subjects in the control group will receive usual community service. in addition, a monthly social control call from trained community workers will be given to rule out the possible social effects of the intervention. These social calls will not be related the participants' health condition nor delivery of any health information.
Locations (1)
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Kowloon, Hong Kong