Evaluating an Enhanced Home-delivered Meal Program on Older Adults' Health and Well-being

Meals on Wheels of Rhode Island (MOWRI), in partnership with the University of Connecticut (UConn), will implement and evaluate an enhanced version of its Home-Delivered Meals Program (HDMP). The project goal is to implement and test the effectiveness of an enhanced Home-Delivered Meals (HDM) service delivery approach. The enhanced approach includes community health worker (CHW) interactions and supplemental healthy grocery bags to address diet quality, food and nutrition security, loneliness, and health-related quality of life for older adults. MOWRI participants at the highest nutritional risk will be randomized to receive standard or enhanced services in order to test the effect of the intervention on health-related outcomes. Anticipated outcomes for individuals receiving enhanced services are improvements in measures of diet quality, food and nutrition security, loneliness, and health-related quality of life compared with those receiving standard HDM services.

NCT Number	NCT06401694
Lead Sponsor	University of Connecticut Collaborators: Department of Health and Human Services, Meals on Wheels Rhode Island (MOWRI)
Conditions	Diet, Healthy, Food Insecurity, Loneliness, Quality of Life
Enrollment	1,640 participants
Start Date	2024-06-20
Primary Completion	2027-09-30 (estimated)
Study Completion	2028-04-30 (estimated)
Updated on ClinicalTrials.gov	2025-12-16