Recruiting and screening older, transitional to frail adults in congregate living facilities.
Historically older adults have been recruited from the community or from long-term care facilities. The research study, The Effects of Intense Tai Chi Training in the Older Adult, targeted adults 70 years and older who were residing in congregate living facilities and transitioning to frailty according to the Speechley/Tinetti scale. This article describes the strategies that were designed and implemented to recruit and screen the 287 older adults who entered the randomized, single-blinded clinical trial.
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Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA. nfreret@sph.emory.edu
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Lois
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Murphy
Susan
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D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D016330:Frail Elderly; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D006707:Homes for the Aged / Q000145:classification; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D015337:Multicenter Studies as Topic; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000145:classification; D018579:Patient Selection; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D018401:Sample Size