LEAPTogether: An Intergenerational Intervention to Address Loneliness and Social Isolation — LEAPTogether  

Loneliness Clinical Trial

Official title: Leveraging Exercise to Age in Place (LEAP) Together: An Intergenerational Intervention to Address Loneliness and Social Isolation

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

Older adult participants will engage in exercise videos twice a week for 8 weeks either while paired with a peer (same age group) or paired with a younger adult with the ability to simultaneously video chat while exercising.

Clinical Trial Description

Participation in this study includes:

• Completing assessments at baseline (start of study), 8 weeks, and 16 weeks

• Initial meeting with an Exercise Physiologist to determine exercise interests and preferences

• Being matched with an exercise partner

• Virtually meeting with partner to engage in exercise videos via the FlexTogether platform (meet twice a week for a total of 8 weeks)

• Attend a live group class once a month

• Completing an exit interview

Primary Objective:

To assess feasibility by monitoring adherence to an 8-week virtual paired exercise program for older adults

Secondary Objectives:

1. To mechanistically investigate the key social pairing components (i.e., older adults together, younger and older adult pairing) within a virtual program necessary to enhance social connectedness, decrease loneliness, improve well-being, and increase physical activity in older adults and younger adult participants in the short-term (pre-post) through surveys and qualitative interviews

2. To mechanistically investigate the key social pairing components (i.e., older adults together, younger and older adult pairing) within a virtual program necessary to enhance social connectedness, decrease loneliness, improve well-being, and increase physical activity in older adults and younger adult participants in the long-term (8 weeks post-intervention / 18 weeks on study) through surveys and qualitative interviews ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Intergenerational Relations
• Loneliness
• Social Isolation

• NCT number: NCT05831475
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
• Contact: Allison M Mays, MD, MAS
• Phone: (310) 385-3511
• Email: Allison.Mays@cshs.org
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 7, 2023
• Completion date: May 2025