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CPSTF Recommends Home-delivered and Congregate Meal Services for Older Adults

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The Community Preventive Services Task Force

 

CPSTF Recommends Home-delivered and Congregate Meal Services for Older Adults

 

The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends home-delivered and congregate meal services to reduce malnutrition among older adults living independently. A systematic review of evidence showed home-delivered meal services increased the percent of older adults who met their Recommended Daily Allowances for energy and protein and decreased malnutrition by 15.5 percentage points. Congregate meal services decreased malnutrition by 9 percentage points.

An older woman eating a meal alone.

 

Why is this important?

  • Older adults are at greater risk of malnutrition1 and may experience less social connectedness.2
  • Older adults living on fixed incomes are at greater risk for food insecurity.3,4
  • The Older Americans Act Nutrition Program provides home-delivered meal and congregate meal services to reduce hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition; enhance socialization; and promote health and well-being among older Americans.5

 

 

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Intervention Summary—Nutrition: Home-delivered and Congregate Meal Services for Older Adults

 

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The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide) is a website that is a collection of all the evidence-based findings and recommendations of the Community Preventive Services Task Force.

 

References

1 Norman K, et al. Malnutrition in older adults—recent advances and remaining challenges. Nutrients 2021;13:2764.

2 Krondl M, et al. Helping older adults meet nutritional challenges. Journal of Nutrition for the Elderly 2008; 27(3/4), 205-20.

3 Mabli J, et al. Hunger in America 2010: National report prepared for Feeding America: final report. Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.: 2010. Report number: 06251-600.

4 Goldberg SL, et al. Predictors of food insecurity among older adults in the United States. Public Health Nursing 2014; doi: 10.1111/phn.12173.

5 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Community Living. Nutrition Services. November 2021. Date Accessed: 11/29/2021. Available at: https://acl.gov/programs/health-wellness/nutrition-services.

 

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