Meals On Wheels Clients: Measurable Differences In The Likelihood Of Aging In Place Or Being Hospitalized

Abstract

Little is known about how participation in home-delivered meal programs (known as Meals on Wheels), financed in part through the Older Americans Act, relates to the use of health services and the ability to age in place for elder Medicare beneficiaries. Using 2013–20 data from the National Health and Aging Trends Study, we evaluated the relationship between Meals on Wheels use and two outcomes—likelihood of continued community residence and risk for hospitalization—in the following year for Medicare beneficiaries ages sixty-five and older, overall and by gender, race,...

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