Home-delivered meal programme participants may be at greater risk of malnutrition without the meal programme.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

(1) To examine total quality of foods consumed on the day a home-delivered meal (HDM) of the Older Americans Act Nutrition Program (OAANSP) was served, and when a HDM was not served; and (2) to estimate proportion of HDM participants and non-participants meeting the daily average recommendations for guidance-based foods and nutrients.

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Setting

Data were obtained from the national 2015-2017 Outcomes Evaluation Study of HDM participants in the USA.

Participants

Adults aged 67 years and older (n 1227), 620 HDM recipients and 607 matching non-participants examined in three groups: (1) meal recipients who received a HDM on the day of the 24-h dietary recall; (2) no-meal recipients who did not receive a HDM on the day of

SUBMITTER: Sakr-Ashour FA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9991720 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature