Can a phone app reverse frailty? new study recruits 40 seniors

NCT ID NCT06891573

Symptom relief Sponsor: Seong Hye Choi, MD Source: ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026

Summary

This study tests a smartphone app called SUPERAGING in 40 frail or pre-frail adults aged 60-90. For 16 weeks, the app provides personalized exercise, brain games, nutrition tips, and disease management. The main goal is to see if people will stick with the app and find it safe, not yet to prove it improves frailty.

What this could mean

Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.

Active substance: SUPERAGING smartphone app (behavioral intervention: exercise, cognitive training, nutrition education, disease education)
What this could lead to: If successful, this app could offer a convenient way to help frail older adults improve their strength, thinking, and overall health at home.
What could go wrong: This is a very small, early feasibility study with only 40 participants. It focuses on whether people will use the app, not on proving it works. Results may not apply to everyone.

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Study facts

What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.

Phase

Not a phased trial

Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.

Participants

About 40 people

The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.

Started

Feb 2025

Expected to finish

Jan 2026

An estimate. End dates often move.

Lead sponsor

Other sponsor

The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.

Who can take part

This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.

Ages

60 to 90 years

Sex

Anyone

Healthy volunteers

Not accepted

This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.

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Inclusion Criteria: * 60-90 years of age * Residing in the community * Total score of Modified Fried frailty phenotype score ≥ 1 point * Korean Mini-Mental State Examination-2 z-score ≥ -1.5 * Can read and write * Being able to use the a mobile app through education or having someone help a participant use the mobile app * Having a reliable informant who could provide investigators with the requested information. * written informed consent Exclusion Criteria: * Major psychiatric illness such as major depressive disorders * Dementia * Other neurodegenerative disease (e.g., Parkinson's disease) * Malignancy within five years * Cardiac stent or revascularization within one year * Serious or unstable symptomatic cardiovascular disease * Other serious or unstable medical disease such as acute or severe asthma, active gastric ulcer, severe liver disease, or severe renal disease * Severe loss of vision, hearing, or communicative disability * Significant laboratory abnormality that may result in cognitive impairment * Any conditions preventing cooperation as judged by the study physician * Unable to participate in exercise program safely * Coincident participation in any other intervention trial

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Conditions

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Frailty

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Frailty

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The places running it

3 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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Can a phone app reverse frailty? new study recruits 40 seniors

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