Advancing Rehabilitation Paradigms for Older Adults in Skilled Nursing Facilities

Description

This cluster randomized clinical trial seeks to provide large-scale, foundational evidence that high-intensity rehabilitation is effective and can be systematically implemented to improve functional outcomes for patients admitted to skilled nursing facilities following hospitalization. Additionally, this study will generate a descriptive overview of factors that predict implementation success while informing effective implementation strategies for future skilled nursing facilities innovation.

Conditions

Aging, Functional Recovery, Skilled Nursing Facility, Medically Complex, Deconditioning

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

This cluster randomized clinical trial seeks to provide large-scale, foundational evidence that high-intensity rehabilitation is effective and can be systematically implemented to improve functional outcomes for patients admitted to skilled nursing facilities following hospitalization. Additionally, this study will generate a descriptive overview of factors that predict implementation success while informing effective implementation strategies for future skilled nursing facilities innovation.

Advancing Rehabilitation Paradigms for Older Adults in Skilled Nursing Facilities

Advancing Rehabilitation Paradigms for Older Adults in Skilled Nursing Facilities

Condition
Aging
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Aurora

University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States, 80045

Frisco

Aegis Therapies, Frisco, Texas, United States, 75034

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Aegis Therapies-contracted skilled nursing facility (SNF)
  • * Admits approximately 15 patients per month for short term rehabilitation
  • * Contraindications to high-intensity resistance training, per American College of Sports Medicine Exercise Testing and Prescription
  • * Lower extremity weight-bearing precautions
  • * Neurological diagnosis (e.g., Cerebral vascular accident, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's disease)
  • * Subsequent SNF admission

Ages Eligible for Study

50 Years to 120 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

University of Colorado, Denver,

Jennifer Stevens-Lapsley, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of Colorado, Denver

Study Record Dates

2026-03-31