Exercise Intervention for Patients With Sarcopenia or Frailty in Long-term Care Institutions

Sarcopenia is a geriatric syndrome of decreased muscle volume with muscular function decline. There is more tendency for sarcopenic elderly to be frail, disabled, or have cardiovascular disease. Compared to those who are not sarcopenic, they also had worse prognosis in response to treatment for definite diseases, and spend more medical cost.

Exercise appears to have an important role in management of sarcopenia. In the current study, the investigators provide an exercise program, including resistance/balance training for the elderly with sarcopenia or frailty in long-term care institution, and evaluate the effect.

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Key information

Conditions

Sarcopenia Atrophy Muscular Atrophy Nervous System Diseases Neurologic Manifestations Neuromuscular Manifestations Pathological Conditions, Anatomical Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms Signs and Symptoms

Age range

20 year–110 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Bor-Ay Sweet home

Keelung, 205, Taiwan

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

>20-year-old
diagnosed with sarcopenia (by the definition from Asia workgroup for sarcopenia, AWGS) or frailty (The Fried model, based on five functional criteria)

Exclusion criteria

Severe medical diseases or mental problems, which result in difficulty to follow exercise program.
Inability to get down from bed for activity due to disease, such as neuropathy or orthopedic disease.
High risk group for exercise program, such as those with unstable fracture or nonunion fracture.
Anyone who didn't want attend this study.

Treatment and study plan

Group exercise program

Behavioral

Patients in experimental group attend group exercise program, instructed by fitness trainer, at long-term care institutions.

Frequency: 3 times per week. Type: resistance/flexibility/balance training, including warm-up and cold-down. Duration: 1 hour per time, for 16 weeks.

Self exercise program

Behavioral

Patients in control group receive oral education for self exercise program, mainly resistance muscle training. Patients are requested to do self-training for 16 weeks.

Primary outcomes

Muscle strength

Time frame: after 16-weeks training

grasp strength by dynamometer
walk speed

Time frame: after 16-weeks training

6-meter walk test

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start: 2018
Primary completion: 2019
Study completion: 2019
First posted: Aug 29, 2018
Registry last updated: Aug 13, 2019

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