This is a single- country, interventional, double-arm study involving Chinese Elderly subjects.
This study aims to understand the following: 1. The effect of long-term Oral Nutritional Supplementation (ONS) on improving nutritional and health status in Chinese elderly. 2. The impact of long-term ONS on health cost including both medical cost and social health care burdens. 3. The impact of long-term ONS on life quality of the elderly. The study includes Screening Visit (Day -7\~0), and Visit 1(Day 0) to Visit 7 (Day 168±3). Enrollment of anticipated 666 subjects, Male or female Chinese ages \>= 60 years, to get 400 evaluable subjects.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Will receive ONS twice a day for 6 months and two nutritional education at baseline and 3 months after intervention
Two nutritional education courses at baseline and 3 months after intervention
Change of body weight from baseline to the end of the study
Time frame: 24 weeks
Total number of sick days due to Upper Respiratory Tract Infections (URTI)
Time frame: 24 weeks
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