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Lawler, Katherine

Training family to assist with physiotherapy for older people transitioning from hospital to the community: a pilot randomized controlled trial

Objective: To investigate the safety and effectiveness of augmenting physiotherapy with family-assisted therapy, to inform a future, fully powered trial.; Design: Parallel pilot randomized controlled trial.; Setting: Transition Care Program.; Participants: Thirty-five older adults with multimorbidity, recently hospitalized, with a mean age of 84.1 years (SD = 6.1 years) and mean Modified Barthel Index of 67.8 units (SD = 19.2 units), and 40 family members.; Interventions: The control group ( n = 18) receive

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