Lifestyle Matters: An Occupational Approach Towards Health and Well-being in Later Life

February 10, 2017 updated by: Professor Gail Mountain, University of Sheffield

Lifestyle Matters is an occupational approach to healthy ageing, which helps older people to get the most out of life. The intervention is based on an American model of health promotion called Lifestyle Redesign. This was found to be highly effective in enhancing the physical and mental health, occupational functioning and life satisfaction of community living older adults in Los Angeles, USA.

Weekly group meetings provide older people with the space, time and opportunity to share their experiences. Through a process of peer exchange and guidance, participants have the opportunity to reflect upon the range of activities that they engage with. They are then helped to begin to understand how these activities might impact on their health and well-being. However this approach alone cannot meet the complex needs of individual older people, and their specific and personal concerns. In recognition of this, the programme also includes monthly individual sessions with one of the group facilitators. The older person in partnership with the facilitator identifies a tailored programme to meet their individual needs, including the means by which they might work towards their personal goals. The individual programme is updated and refreshed in subsequent meetings over the months.

During 2004/5 researchers at Sheffield Hallam University in partnership with other researchers in York and Leeds, and clinical colleagues in Sheffield explored the feasibility of delivering this intervention to older people living in the UK. The project was funded through the Sheffield Health and Social Research Consortium. The summary below is an account of the process and outcomes of delivering a Lifestyle Matters programme to two groups of community living older people during 2004/5.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

28

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United Kingdom
      • Sheffield, United Kingdom
        • Sheffield Hallam University

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.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

65 years and older (Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Community living
  • Aged 65 or over

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Score of 18 or under on Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE)
  • high level of depression, assessed using the Geriatric depression rating scale (GDS)

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Prevention
  • Allocation: N/A
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Lifestyle Matters intervention
Behavioral: Lifestyle Matters

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
Mini Mental State examination
Time Frame: On average 8 months after commencing intervention
On average 8 months after commencing intervention

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
Geriatric Depression Rating Scale
Time Frame: On average 8 months after commencing intervention
On average 8 months after commencing intervention
Barthel Index
Time Frame: On average 8 months after commencing intervention
On average 8 months after commencing intervention
SF36 Quality of Life
Time Frame: On average 8 months after commencing intervention
On average 8 months after commencing intervention
WHODAS (World Health Disability Assessment Schedule)
Time Frame: On average 8 months after commencing intervention
On average 8 months after commencing intervention
Nottingham Leisure Questionnaire
Time Frame: On average 8 months after commencing intervention
On average 8 months after commencing intervention

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

University of Sheffield

Publications and helpful links

The person responsible for entering information about the study voluntarily provides these publications. These may be about anything related to the study.

General Publications

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start

January 1, 2004

Primary Completion (Actual)

July 1, 2006

Study Completion (Actual)

July 1, 2006

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

January 19, 2017

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 10, 2017

First Posted (Actual)

February 15, 2017

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

February 15, 2017

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 10, 2017

Last Verified

February 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 2006/01/GM

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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