Home-delivered Meals for Persons With Dementia: Which Model Delays Nursing Home Placement?

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Conditions studied: Dementia

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID: NCT04850781
Run by: Brown University
People needed: 243
Starts: 2021-04-12
Expected to finish: 2022-12-31
Last updated by the study team: 2024-01-03

Who can join

Age: 66 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

On MOW program waiting list
66 years of age or older (to allow for Medicare enrollment and a one-year baseline look-back)
Self-reporting a diagnosis of memory loss, dementia, cognitive impairment, or Alzheimer's disease

You may not qualify if…

Residing in a service area where it is not possible to receive the daily-delivered meals.

Where it is running

Neighborly Senior Services — Clearwater, Florida, United States
Visiting Nurse Association of Texas — Dallas, Texas, United States
Meals on Wheels - San Antonio — San Antonio, Texas, United States

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