This application, funded by the American Association of Retired Persons(AARP) Foundation, is to implement the Healthy Eating for at Risk Older Adults (HERO) initiative. This initiative will address barriers of affordability, and reduced mobility by providing older adults with nutritious foods that are usually difficult to purchase due to high cost; delivering needed foods to individuals in their homes; tailoring food delivery frequency based on level of food insecurity; and offering basic nutrition education.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
101
Frequency of food deliveries is based on level of food insecurity at baseline (i.e., more food insecurity receives more frequent food deliveries). Deliveries are tailored to the diet of the client (e.g., consist of soft foods if participant has trouble chewing; has more fruits and vegetables if that was a food category the participant at less of at baseline). The brief nutrition education is a review of basic nutrition concepts and healthy eating ideas.
Boston Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
body composition
percent body fat
Time frame: 6 months
BMI
Body mass index
Time frame: 6 months
weight
total body weight in pounds
Time frame: 6 months
blood pressure
systolic and diastolic blood pressure
Time frame: 6 months
blood glucose
measurement of blood glucose
Time frame: 6 months
nutritional risk
food frequency questionnaire assessing levels of food intake in pre-specified categories (e.g., fruits and vegetables)
Time frame: 6 months
food insecurity
measurement of food insecurity as assessed by standard questionnaire
Time frame: 6 months
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