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

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

130 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-02-15

Study Completion Date

2018-09-01

Brief Summary

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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.

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Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Frail Older Adults

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Single Blind

Study Groups

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Interventionsgroup

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

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

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

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.

Controlgroup

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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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.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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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

Minimum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes