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Home-delivered Meals for Persons With Dementia: Which Model Delays Nursing Home Placement?
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Bi-weekly frozen meal home delivery and Daily home meal delivery for Dementia. Completed, enrolled 243 participants across 3 sites.
Detailed Summary
This project is the pilot phase of a pragmatic randomized clinical trial comparing outcomes among older adults with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) receiving home-delivered meals. This pilot will test and validate vital elements and procedures including: 1) enrolling persons with ADRD on Meals on Wheels (MOW) programs' waiting lists to receive one of the two types of meals; 2) recruiting a subsample of participants and caregivers to participate in telephone interviews; 3) extracting and transferring program data to Brown University; 4) linking participant data with Medicare and nursing home assessment data. Persons with ADRD receiving meals and their caregivers will be recruited to pilot interview guides. The interviews will provide important process and mechanistic information about the experiences receiving meals and participants' outcomes.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
All participants randomized to this arm will receive 10 frozen meals that are mailed to their home every two weeks from a MOW vendor, TRIO foods.
All participants randomized to this arm will receive meals delivered to their home multiple times per week from a MOW program employee/volunteer with a wellness check and socialization.