Malnutrition in Older Adults: An Intervention Based on Medication Review and Individual Nutritional Plan

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 2023-07-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The project "Nutrition and Medication management in home-dwelling older adults" consist of two separate studies witch are described in the same study protocol. This is the second study in this Project. The first study (cross sectional) is described separately; Identification: 2017/12883-1

Undernutrition is common in older adults. The causes are many and include drug therapy. Drug side effects, as loss of appetite, nausea, or dry mouth, may contribute to malnutrition, impaired health and loss of function.

In patients with malnutrition or at risk for malnutrition we will evaluate an intervention consisting of:

• an "individual nutritional plan" with different measures aiming at improving nutritional status.

• a systematic drug review.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Oslo
• Collaborator: The Norwegian Research Fund for General Practice

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age 70 year or more

• Receiving home nurse care each second week or more often

• Mini Nutritional Assessment short form (MNA-SF): 0-11 point (malnourished or at risk for malnutrition)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Life expectance less than 6 month

• Serious cognitive impairment

• In need of enteral-/ parenteral nutrition

• Not able to stand up for weight measure

• The home care service are not responsible for medication delivery.