Community-dwelling older adults receiving support at home such as meals-on-wheels may lose the ability to preserve social, cognitive, and functional abilities, when becoming accustomed to and dependent of community aged care. When still able to cook older adults often hold some control over the foods that are prepared and which they eat, and which helps to foster identity. The purpose of this study is to evaluate community-dwelling older adults being involved in activities in relation to meals in a rehabilitation program.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
130
The intervention consists of two parts: 1. Education of the health care staff with three day's education focusing of aspects of food, meals and nutrition to old people. 2. The individual participants in the intervention group will be participating in a rehabilitation process involving collaborative goal setting with a case manager. All the case managers have a background as registered dietician and will before start of the intervention be trained in managing a rehabilitation process with focus on meals and food. The training will consist of three days of education in, respectively, areas in relation to rehabilitation and the role as a care manager. Specific topics include; assessment of functional abilities in relation to meals and food; goal setting by means of GAS (Goal Attainment Scaling), ethical considerations and communication.
The Danish Dietetic Association
Copenhagen, Denmark
Quality of life
EuroQol (EQ-5D) is a questionnaire with five questions to be answered in three categories of movement, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort and anxiety/depression.
Time frame: Up to 6 months
30 seconds chair-stand
30 seconds chair-stand will be used to measure muscle strength. Participants are asked to fold their arms across their chest and to stand up and sit down on a chair without pushing off with arms, as many times as possible for 30 seconds.
Time frame: Up to 6 months
Weight
Weight in kilograms
Time frame: Up to 6 months
Height
Height in meter and centimetre
Time frame: Up to 6 months
Loneliness
Loneliness will be measured by the UCLA Loneliness Scale. The scale consists of 20 items (11 positive and 9 negative), describing subjective feelings of loneliness.
Time frame: Up to 6 months
Mental well-being
Mental well-being will be measured by the short Warwich-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (SWEMWBS) - Danish version 2014. SWEMWBS is a 7-item scale; each answered on a 1 to 5 Likert scale, with most items representing aspects of psychological and eudemonic well-being, and few covering hedonic well-being or affect.
Time frame: Up to 6 months
Self-efficacy
Self-efficacy will be measured by The General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE).The GSE is a 10-item psychometric scale will be used to assess optimistic self-beliefs to cope with a variety of difficult demands in life.
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Time frame: Up to 6 months
Satisfaction with food-related life
The satisfaction with food-related life will be measured by the Satisfaction with Food-related Life (SWFL) scale.The SWFL, consists of 5 items grouped into a single dimension (e.g. Food 1: Food and meals are positive elements; Food 2: I am generally pleased with my food; Food 3: My life in relation to food and meals is close to ideal; Food 4: With regards to food, the conditions of my life are excellent; Food 5: Food and meals give me satisfaction in daily life.). In each scale, the respondents must indicate their degree of agreement with these statements using a 6-level Likert scale (1 = disagree completely, 6 = agree completely).
Time frame: Up to 6 months