NCT03889184

An Innovative Rehabilitating Meals-on-wheels Service for Frail Old People

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 76 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Copenhagen · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aim of the project is to assess the beneficial effect of offering frail old people a targeted meals-on-wheels service in 8 weeks in a randomized controlled trial

Detailed description

The aim of the project is to assess the beneficial effect of offering frail old people a targeted meals-on-wheels service in 8 weeks in a randomized controlled trial. The target group is, respectively old people discharged from an hospital stay, old people referred for exercise rehabilitation in the municipality and old people already receiving meals-on-wheels

Conditions

• Undernutrition
• Rehabilitation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	rehabilitating meals-on-wheels service	the meals-on-wheels service will be specifically targeted for old people discharged from hospital, receiving exercise rehabilitation in the municipality or already receiving meals-on-wheels

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-03-18
• Primary completion: 2019-12-31
• Completion: 2020-03-01
• First posted: 2019-03-26
• Last updated: 2020-06-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark