Deliver-EE: Evaluating Effects of Meal Delivery
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Official title
Deliver-EE: Evaluating Effects of Meal Delivery on the Ability of Homebound Older Adults to Remain in the Community Via A Pragmatic, Two-Arm, Randomized Comparative Effectiveness Trial
Brief summary
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This study will randomly assign 2,300 older adults on waiting lists at fourteen Meals on Wheels programs in Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Tennessee, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, and California into two groups who will receive: (a) daily delivery of meals, five days a week or (b) a shipment of 10 frozen meals, every two weeks. Researchers will examine participants' Medicare claims to understand if differences in healthcare utilization occur between the two groups within six months after they start receiving meals. Researchers will also ask participants questions prior to receiving meals, and again at three months, to understand how meals impact their ability to obtain food, their feelings of loneliness, and their overall quality of life. The primary study outcome will be the ratio of days spent in institutional settings (i.e., hospital, nursing home) in the six months after participants begin receiving meals. The secondary outcomes include the ratio of days spent in institutional settings in the three months after participants begin receiving meals, food insecurity, subjective isolation/loneliness, and health-related quality of life. The team will also examine differences in dietary intake between the two groups as an exploratory outcome.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT05357261
- Recruitment status
- Active, not recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 2,300 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 66 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Apr 30, 2022
- Primary completion
- Jul 31, 2027
- Completion
- Feb 29, 2028
- Last update posted
- Jul 9, 2026
2022 – 2028
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 14
- U.S. states
- 8
- U.S. cities
- 14
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meals on Wheels San Diego County | San Diego | California | 92110 | — |
| Neighborly Care Network | Clearwater | Florida | 33762 | — |
| Aging True | Jacksonville | Florida | 32210 | — |
| Meals on Wheels Northeastern Illinois | Evanston | Illinois | 60201 | — |
| Meals on Wheels of Central Maryland | Baltimore | Maryland | 21224 | — |
| Meals On Wheels Durham | Durham | North Carolina | 27703 | — |
| Senior Resources of Guilford | Greensboro | North Carolina | 27408 | — |
| Meals On Wheels - Anderson | Anderson | South Carolina | 29624 | — |
| Senior Resources Inc | Columbia | South Carolina | 29205 | — |
| Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association (MIFA) | Memphis | Tennessee | 38126 | — |
| Visiting Nurse Association of Texas | Dallas | Texas | 75247 | — |
| Northwest Assistance Ministries | Houston | Texas | 77090 | — |
| Amigos Del Valle, Inc | Mission | Texas | 78572 | — |
| Meals on Wheels San Antonio | San Antonio | Texas | 78229 | — |
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- Last update posted Jul 9, 2026 · Synced Sep 7, 2026
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