Conclusion
RECRUITMENT
This recruitment paper describes the difficulties often encountered when recruiting for a community randomized control trial on high frequency 9-1-1 callers. It can be difficult to reach this population due to a number of factors. Age, method of recruitment, and reason for calling 9-1-1 had impacts on the ability to contact and recruitment outcome, with older adults requiring a lift assist being more likely to participate in the home health program. These results can inform future studies of the challenges with recruiting frequent 9-1-1 callers by recognizing the implications of participants’ age, the method used to contact them, and their reason for calling 9-1-1. This study provides the foundation for further qualitative and quantitative exploration into the recruitment of older adults into a community randomized control trial.