Home Tele-Rehabilitation for Older Adults With Early Parkinson's Disease
Tests home tele-rehabilitation against usual care in older adults with early Parkinson's disease.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Istituto Nazionale di Ricovero e Cura per Anziani
- Where
- Ancona, ItalySee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Tele-Rehabilitation Intervention in Community-Based Healthcare for Patients With Parkinson's Disease (DHEAL-COM-PD)
- Status
- Not yet recruiting
- People taking part
- 40 people, planned
- Started
- 2 Sept 2025
- Planned end
- 30 May 2026
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets a sham (pretend) treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- home tele-rehabilitation
- Usual care
- Record updated
- 22 May 2025
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for older people with early-stage Parkinson's disease who can walk and take part in a tele-rehabilitation programme.
- Age
- 65 years or older
- Sex
- All sexes
- Disease stage
- Parkinson's disease, Hoehn & Yahr stage I-III
- Earlier treatment
- Drug treatment must have been stable for at least 1 month.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Heart attack or stroke within the last 6 months
- Painful arthritis, spinal stenosis, amputation, painful foot lesions or neuropathy that limits balance and movement
- Uncontrolled high blood pressure
- Metastatic cancer or immunosuppressive therapy
- Significant vision or hearing problems
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Suffering from Parkinson's disease: Hoehn \& Yahr stage I-III
- Functional Ambulation Category (FAC) score ≥ 3
- Stability of drug treatment for at least 1 month
- Maintaining an upright position independently > 30"
- No acute or untreated health problems
- Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) ≥ 24
- Geriatric Depression Score (GDS) < 2
Who cannot take part
- Myocardial infarction or stroke within 6 months
- Uncontrolled hypertension
- Metastatic cancer or immunosuppressive therapy
- Significant visual or hearing impairment
- Painful arthritis, spinal stenosis, amputation, painful foot lesions, or neuropathy that limits balance and mobility
Where in Italy
- IRCCS INRCA HospitalAncona, ItalyContact: Elvira MaranesiNo longer taking part
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
The study aims to measure the improvement in functional capacity in a group of elderly people suffering from early-stage Parkinson's disease (Hoehn \& Yahr scale 1-3), following a telerehabilitation intervention integrated with BTS TELEREHAB technology.
The 2 groups in the trial
- Intervention armTreatment being tested
Older peple with Parkinson disease
Treatment: home tele-rehabilitation
- Usual careSham treatment, for comparison
Older peple with Parkinson disease
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Tele-Rehabilitation Intervention in Community-Based Healthcare for Patients With Parkinson's Disease (DHEAL-COM-PD)
- Plain-language title
- Home Tele-Rehabilitation for Older Adults With Early Parkinson's DiseaseGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 12 November 2026.
- Record updated
- 22 May 2025