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NCT Number: NCT02155686

Elderly Chronic Diseases Online Biometric Analysis Home Living Technology

The elderly or people with disabilities want to remain in their homes even when their health condition has been getting worse.

This project aims to demonstrate that home automation and telemonitoring can lead to develop a home safety environment that could help the elderly and individual with disability live independently in their own home.

In this study, the automation sensors containing devices follow up chronic disease clinical factors to monitor their biometrical parameters and detect any abnormal prodromal disease decompensation via telemonitoring and geriatric expertise.

The purpose of this study is:

* to provide clinical evidence of the effectiveness of automation tools and telemonitoring/expertise for the home support for people at risk of loss of autonomy * to demonstrate the clinical benefit of combining the automation and telemonitoring and geriatric teleexpertise

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Key information

Conditions

the Elderly

Age range

65 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Service de Gériatrie - CHU de LImoges

Limoges, 87042, France

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Aged 65 or more.
  • House equipped with home automation
  • Having been hospitalized in the year prior to the inclusion for the following conditions : heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD ), diabetes, high blood pressure ( hypertension ) , repetitive falls, chronic renal failure , stroke, neurodegenerative diseases , malnutrition (according to criteria HAS)
  • Multiple chronic diseases (at least 2 comorbidities) .
  • Having given free and informed consent

Exclusion criteria

  • Life expectancy less than 12 months
  • Enrolled in another clinical trial

Treatment and study plan

Biosensors

Device

Device: Biometric sensors; Home automation; telecare

Home automation

Device

Primary outcomes

  1. Number of unplanned hospitalization for decompensation

    Time frame: at 12 months

    The effectiveness of home telemonitoring on the cumulative incidence of unplanned hospitalization for decompensation in the elderly

Secondary outcomes

  1. Impact on global health

    Time frame: at 12 months

    • Number of visits to the emergency
    • Number of readmissions
    • Number of days of hospitalization
    • Number of visits to the doctor

  2. Cost/effectivness preventive care

    Time frame: at 12 months

    Evaluate the cost / effectiveness of the impact of telemonitoring on the preventive care in the elderly

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University Hospital, Limoges

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Etude de l'Impact Clinique de la télésurveillance à Domicile Par télémédecine de paramètres biométriques de la Personne âgée Polypathologique

Acronym: e-COBAHLT

Important dates

Study start
2014
Primary completion
2018
Study completion
2019
First posted
Jun 4, 2014
Registry last updated
Mar 27, 2026

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