Functional Incidental Training: Applicability and feasibility in the Veterans Affairs nursing home patient population

FIT is applicable to a substantial number of patients in VA nursing homes. The FIT protocol tested in this trial can be further refined and individualized based on patient preferences and adherence to various components of FIT in order to make it more feasible, efficient, and cost-effective in practice. The costs of maintaining an intervention such as FIT in all VA nursing home patients who may benefit, however, are high and must be justified largely by potential positive effects on function and quality of life, as opposed to cost savings resulting from the intervention.