Strategies and Lessons Learned from a Home Delivery Food Prescription Program for Older Adults

Zimmer, Rachel P.; Moore, Justin B.; Yang, Mia; Evans, Joni; Best, Scott; McNeill, Sheena; Harrison, David; Martin, Heather; Montez, Kimberly

Strategies and Lessons Learned from a Home Delivery Food Prescription Program for Older Adults

2022

Food insecurity (FI) is a growing health problem, worsening during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fresh food prescription programs (FFRx) have been shown to increase healthy eating and decrease FI, but few FFRx are community-informed, or theory based. Our FFRx was a delivery program developed to alleviate FI for older adults. It was implemented in an academic medical center and guided by the Capabilities, Opportunities, Motivations, and Behaviors and Theoretical Domains Framework. We tested impacts of the program on FI, Fruit and Vegetable (FV) intake, depression, and loneliness at six-month intervals. During the FFRx, 31 people completed surveys every six months. FI decreased by an average of 2.03 points (p = <.001) while FV intake increased from a mean of 2.8 servings per day to 2.9 servings per day (p = .53). Depression and loneliness scores stayed stable. Preliminary data from this FFRx program, a partnership between an academic medical center and community partners, had positive impacts on FI.

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Mots clés AGROVOC

food access food insecurity food security fruits gerontology hunger nutrition vegetables

Informations bibliographiques

Publié dans

Journal of nutrition in gerontology and geriatrics

Volume 41 Numéro 3 Pagination 217 - 234 ISSN 2155-1200

Editeur

Wageningen Academic Publishers

D'autres materias

Loneliness; Food prescription; Nurse practitioner; Social determinants of health; Quantitative research; People; Medical facilities; Com-b; Older adults; Covid-19 infection

Langue

anglais

Note

The authors also wish to acknowledge the support of the Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center Qualitative and Patient Reported Outcomes Shared Resource, supported by the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Center Support [Grant award number P30CA012197] for their assistance with coding and analysis. This work was supported by Federal CARES Act funding under [Grant number (n/a)]; the NC-Pandemic Recovery Office funding under [Grant number 32-00A-05]; and the NC Baptist Hospital Foundation under [Grant number (n/a)].

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DOI DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21551197.2022.2084204

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