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Developing and Testing Delicious and Nutritious for the Old People

NCT03133364 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 52

Last updated 2018-01-23

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Meals-on wheels may play a major role in contributing to better nourishment and quality of life in older people, thus delaying costly hospitalisation. Still, dwelling, old adults who receive meals-on-wheels are a population at risk of undernutrition leading to a decreased quality of life.

Hypothesis Offering nutritious ELDORADO meals as meals-on-wheels to nursing home residents in 3 months is an effective way to increase quality of life.

Aim To improve quality of life and functional abilities in nursing home residents by offering nutritious ELDORADO meals.

Conditions

  • Quality of Life
  • Nutritional Deficiency
  • Physical Performance

Interventions

OTHER

Sensory optimized meals

19 main meals and 12 between-meals are optimized and composed to a menu for 12 weeks.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Herlev and Gentofte Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Copenhagen

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Signe Loftager Okkels, Msc · The Nutrition Research Unit, Gentofte University hospital.

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-05-17
Primary Completion
2017-08-08
Completion
2017-08-08

Countries

  • Denmark

Study Locations

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