Trial reportJournal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society2018
Home-Delivered Meals and Risk of Self-Reported Falls: Results From a Randomized Trial.
Trial report in Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.
- Home-Delivered Meals and Nursing Home Placement Among People With Self-Reported Dementia: A Pilot Pragmatic Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2023Trial
- Local Companions and Healthcare Touchpoints in Older Adults' Communication Ecologies: Harnessing Information Ambassadors to Strengthen Pathways to Community-Based Services.Health communication · 2026Article
- Home delivered meals combined with clinical services may reduce fall risk among older adults: early findings from a pilot randomized controlled trial.Innovation in aging · 2025Article
- Tailoring registered dietitian and occupational therapy services for home-delivered meal recipients: feasibility study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2025Article
- Long-Term Care Services and Supports Needed for Successful Aging-in-Place: A Critical Review.Annual review of public health · 2025Review
- Analysis of distribution equilibrium and influencing factors for older adult meal service facilities in mainland China.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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- "The Real Impacts That AAAs are Making:" Developing Measures of Area Agency on Aging Success.Journal of aging & social policy · 2024Article
- Environmental interventions for preventing falls in older people living in the community.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Review
- Strategies for implementing the interRAI home care frailty scale with home-delivered meal clients.Frontiers in public health · 2023Observational
- It's Time We Looked Under the Hood: An In-Depth Examination of Five Public California Area Agencies on Aging.The Gerontologist · 2022Article
- Nutrition Risk is Associated With Falls Risk in an Observational Study of Community-Dwelling, Rural, Older Adults.Journal of aging and health · 2022Observational
- Home-delivered meals for people with dementia: Which model delays nursing home placement? - Protocol for a feasibility pilot.Contemporary clinical trials · 2022Article
- A MULTIPLE IMPUTATION PROCEDURE FOR RECORD LINKAGE AND CAUSAL INFERENCE TO ESTIMATE THE EFFECTS OF HOME-DELIVERED MEALS.The annals of applied statistics · 2021Article
- "It's Not Just a Simple Meal. It's So Much More": Interactions Between Meals on Wheels Clients and Drivers.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2020Article
- A New Data Resource to Examine Meals on Wheels Clients' Health Care Utilization and Costs.Medical care · 2019Article
- Hidden Hunger: Solutions for America's Aging Populations.Nutrients · 2018Review
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether home-delivered meals, and the frequency of delivery, reduces self-reported falls among homebound older adults. Data come from a randomized parallel three-arm study of 371 older adults on seven Meals on Wheels programs' waiting lists. Participants were randomly assigned to receive (a) daily meal delivery ( n = 139); (b) once weekly, frozen meal delivery ( n = 106); or (c) control, remain on the waiting list for meals ( n = 126). Participants were surveyed at baseline and 15 weeks post randomization. At follow-up, 36 (28.6%) in the control group, 29 (27.4%) receiving once weekly delivered meals, and 33 (23.7%) receiving daily delivered meals reported a fall (compared with control, daily meal risk ratio [RR] = 0.83, 95% confidence limits [CL] = [0.55, 1.25]; frozen meal RR = 0.96, 95%CL = [0.63, 1.45]). Our study suggests that daily delivered meals may reduce the risk of falls. Additional work is needed to understand the effect of meals on falls, particularly among previous fallers, a high-risk subgroup.
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