Meal Delivery and Exercise

NARecruitingINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

100

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

July 19, 2021

Primary Completion Date

February 28, 2026

Study Completion Date

February 28, 2026

Conditions
Frailty
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Meals plus exercise

Participants will receive 12 weeks of a MOW delivery service that will include 2 meals per day during the weekdays with 4 shelf-stable meals at the end of the week. The MOW driver will visit the participants in-person to ask a series of 5 questions about change in health status, joint/muscle injuries, new pain, falls, and poor appetite twice a week. Participants will also will receive an exercise kit from the MOW driver with their first meal delivery which will contain 2 tennis balls, 2 1-pound hand weights, and one towel. Every week, the driver will give the participants a handout containing 3 exercises from the NIA Go4Life Workout-to-Go book that are designed to help with strength/endurance, balance, and flexibility20. The participants will be asked to do the 3 exercises every day, if possible, on their own. Every 4 weeks during the 12-week study period and at 6 months follow up patients will have blood drawn for frailty and inflammatory biomarkers.

BEHAVIORAL

Meals only

Participants will receive 12 weeks of a MOW delivery service that will include 2 meals per day during the weekdays with 4 shelf-stable meals at the end of the week. The MOW driver will visit the participants in-person to ask a series of 5 questions about change in health status, joint/muscle injuries, new pain, falls, and poor appetite twice a week. they will be asked to continue their usual level of activity.Every 4 weeks during the 12-week study period and at 6 months follow up patients will have blood drawn for frailty and inflammatory biomarkers.

Trial Locations (1)

77030

RECRUITING

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

National Institute on Aging (NIA)

NIH

lead

The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

OTHER