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Navigation for Elderly People With Multiple Morbidity After Hospital Discharge.
Sponsor: Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre
Summary
This research aims to create and test a tracking (navigation) model to assist in providing care guidance to elderly people (60 years or older) who have two or more chronic diseases at the same time (multimorbidity) immediately after being discharged from the hospital.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
60 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
148
Start Date
2026-06-01
Completion Date
2028-03-30
Last Updated
2026-04-22
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Navigation for elderly people after hospital discharge.
Patients in the intervention group will be followed for six months through monthly teleconsultations by the doctoral researcher and other nurses with experience in elderly health, as well as nursing students who will be trained and supervised by the researcher to provide standardized care in order to avoid bias.
Routine care.
Routine care.
Locations (1)
Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil