Advance Planning for Home Services for Seniors

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

385

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

September 30, 2014

Primary Completion Date

December 31, 2015

Study Completion Date

June 30, 2016

Conditions
Alzheimers, Falls, Aging in Place
Interventions
OTHER

Plan Your Lifespan Website

Participants in the intervention arm will navigate the advance planning tool, Plan Your Lifespan, a Web-based planning tool that provides information for seniors related to advanced health planning for home services in specific content areas of: hospitalizations, falls, Alzheimer's, dementia, as well as communicating with others. A minimum of 15 minutes and a maximum of 45 minutes will be allotted for navigating this website.The Plan Your Lifespan website is also interactive in that it allows participants to enter their information and share it with others to facilitate conversations and decision-making.

OTHER

Go4Life Website

Participants in the attention control arm will navigate an electronic educational session via a National Institute on Aging at NIH Website, Go4Life, a website about physical activity and exercise as it is a topic of interest to seniors. A minimum of 15 minutes and a maximum of 45 minutes will be allotted for navigating the website. The website is interactive and comparable to the intervention tool: http://go4life.nia.nih.gov/get-started).

Trial Locations (2)

46805

Aging & In-Home Services of Northeast Indiana, Fort Wayne

60611

Northwestern University, Chicago

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

OTHER

lead

Northwestern University

OTHER

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