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

Summary

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.

Conditions

• Frail Older Adults

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

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

The intervention consists of two parts: 1. Education of the health care staff with three day's education focusing of aspects of food, meals and nutrition to old people. 2. The individual participants in the intervention group will be participating in a rehabilitation process involving collaborative goal setting with a case manager. All the case managers have a background as registered dietician and will before start of the intervention be trained in managing a rehabilitation process with focus on meals and food. The training will consist of three days of education in, respectively, areas in relation to rehabilitation and the role as a care manager. Specific topics include; assessment of functional abilities in relation to meals and food; goal setting by means of GAS (Goal Attainment Scaling), ethical considerations and communication.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• The Danish Meal Partnership

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Ministry of Environment and Food of Denmark

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Metropolitan University College

  collaborator OTHER

• National Board of Health, Denmark

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• The City of Odense

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Danish Diet & Nutrition Association

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• The Danish Dietetic Association

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Mette Pedersen · The Danish Dietetic Association

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

65 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2017-02-15

Primary Completion

2018-09-01

Completion

2018-09-01

Countries

• Denmark

Study Locations