NCT04442867

A Health-social Partnership Programme for Improving Health Self-management of Community-dwelling Older Adults

Completed NA Last updated 3 August 2022

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Case management in Healthy Aging in 92 participants. Completed in 10 July 2022.

Timeline

30 December 2020

Primary endpoint
30 June 2022

10 July 2022

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	single
Primary purpose	prevention
Enrollment	92
Start date	30 December 2020
Primary completion	30 June 2022
Estimated completion	10 July 2022
Sites	1 location across Hong Kong

Drugs / interventions tested

• Case management
• Social call

Conditions studied

• Healthy Aging — all drugs for Healthy Aging →

Sponsor

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Who can join

60 and older, any sex, with Healthy Aging. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Health-social partnership has been governed by regulations in many developed countries for some years. For instance, the government of United Kingdom has implemented a policy specifically designed to facilitate the discharge of older adults by collaborating health and social care workers in hospitals. The United States also formulated a policy to support the development of collaborative and multi-agency care services in community setting for helping those who are vulnerable and underserved including ethnic minorities, homeless people, and those without health insurance. While these services were shown to reduce the delays in hospital discharge and improve access to services, they were found to be health-dominated and the involvement of service users in strategic design and planning was lacking. As a result, the actual process in practice was reported to be poor and a true model of health and social care partnership was not attained. Currently in Hong Kong, health-social partnership has not yet been driven and guided by policy. It is still unknown for researchers and practitioners as how to effectively build a seamless working partnership among two different disciplines and sustain in the community to support the independent living of older adults.

Publications & conference data

2 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. A community-based health-social partnership program for community-dwelling older adults: a hybrid effectiveness-implementation pilot study.
   Wong AKC, Wong FKY, Wong MCS, Chow KKS, et al · · 2022 · cited 15× · PMID 36207685 · DOI 10.1186/s12877-022-03463-z
2. A health-social service partnership programme for improving the health self-management of community-dwelling older adults: a hybrid effectiveness-implementation pilot study protocol.
   Wong AKC, Wong FKY, Chow KKS, Kwan DKS, et al · · 2023 · cited 1× · PMID 37941087 · DOI 10.1186/s40814-023-01412-0