CAPABLE for Frail Dually Eligible Older Adults

CAPABLE for Frail Dually Eligible Older Adults

The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing offers this research study which aims to learn more about whether services that help with medications, muscle strengthening, pain management and changes to houses can help improve older adults' ability to, walk, and take care of themselves while saving costs by reducing hospitalizations and nursing home admissions.

• 65yrs or older
• Be able to stand (with or without assistance)
• Have some difficulty with getting dressed, or preparing food, bathing
• Receive a low monthly income
• Have no plans to move in the next year
• NOT be receiving home nursing or other therapy right now

Inclusion Criteria:

• 65 or older
• Cognitively intact (≥ 10 on Brief Interview of Mental Status)
• Difficulty with ≥ 2 IADLS or ≥ 1 ADL
• ≤ 199% of Federal Poverty level

Exclusion Criteria:

• Terminally ill

  --Active cancer treatment

• Hospitalized > 3 times in last 3 years

• Receiving home nursing, Occupational Therapy or Physical Therapy

• Don't have phone or do plan to move in less than a year