NCT03133364

Developing and Testing Delicious and Nutritious for the Old People

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 52 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Copenhagen · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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.

Detailed description

Intervention The intervention group (n=50) will receive an optimized menu (in both sensory and nutritious aspects) for 12 weeks. In cooperation with the Copenhagen house of food and sensory staff, 19 main meals and 12 between-meals have been optimized based on nursing home residents' evaluations of sensory aspects. On a daily basis the menu will consist of 1 optimized main meal and 1 optimized between-meal, served for dinner. There will be no selective choice for the elderly. If a participant does not want the daily meal, he will receive another meal from the ordinary menu from the kitchen. Control In comparison, the control group (n=50) will receive the same menu as the intervention group, however, the meals are not optimized on sensory and nutritious aspects. On a daily basis this menu also includes 1 main meal and 1 between-meal in 12 weeks. If a participant does not want the daily meal, he will receive another meal from the ordinary menu from the kitchen.

Conditions

• Quality of Life
• Nutritional Deficiency
• Physical Performance

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Sensory optimized meals	19 main meals and 12 between-meals are optimized and composed to a menu for 12 weeks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-05-17
• Primary completion: 2017-08-08
• Completion: 2017-08-08
• First posted: 2017-04-28
• Last updated: 2018-01-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark