Effect of Involving Community-dwelling Older Adults in Activities in Relation to Meals

The Danish Dietetic Association

Status

Completed

Conditions

Frail Older Adults

Treatments

Behavioral: A rehabilitation process involving collaborative goal setting with a case manager about managing own food and meals

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03289598

PROJECT_APM

Details and patient eligibility

About

Community-dwelling older adults receiving support at home such as meals-on-wheels may lose the ability to preserve social, cognitive, and functional abilities, when becoming accustomed to and dependent of community aged care. When still able to cook older adults often hold some control over the foods that are prepared and which they eat, and which helps to foster identity. The purpose of this study is to evaluate community-dwelling older adults being involved in activities in relation to meals in a rehabilitation program.

Enrollment

130 patients

Sex

All

Ages

65+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Community dwelling older people (64+ years)
Able to eat and drink
Receive meals-on-wheels from the municipality at the time of recruitment
Live in the city of Odense

Exclusion criteria

Moderate-severe dementia as judged by the home -care staff
Being deaf and/or not understand the language of Danish.
Not being able to sign the informed consent
Receiving (or likely to receive in the next 6 months) enteral tube feeding or parenteral nutrition;
Participating in other project in the municipality about nutritional support in the form of dietetic advice;
Or on an end-of-life care pathway