Abstract
We present final results from the 281 CAPABLE participants in a CMMI project. Participants were low-income, cognitively intact, older adults with functional difficulty. They were 74.9 (SD-7.4) years old and predominantly African American (80%) women (83%). They had an average of 3.3 (SD 1.33) chronic conditions and reported difficulty in 3.9 (SD 2.04) out of 8 activities of daily living at baseline. Five months later, at the conclusion of the program, participants had difficulty with only 2.0 (SD 2.05) of 8 ADLs. 75% of the study participants reported difficulty with fewer ADLs at follow-up. In multivariate models, age, race, and depressive symptoms at baseline were not related to improvements. Depressive symptoms improved in 53% of the cohort. Home hazards decreased from an average of 3.3 hazards (SD=1.83) to 1.4 hazards (SD=1.14). Participants who had been hospitalized in the prior year benefited as much as their non-hospitalized counterparts (p=0.14).