Home-Delivered Meals for Older Adults
McWilliams, Rita M. PhD, MPH; Hallman, William K. PhD; Cuite, Cara L. PhD; Senger-Mersich, Angela MS; Sastri, Natasha MPH; Netterville, Linda MA, RD, LD; Byrd-Bredbenner, Carol PhD, RD, FAND
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Departments of Human Ecology (Drs McWilliams, Hallman, and Cuite and Mss Senger-Mersich and Sastri) and Nutritional Sciences (Dr Byrd-Bredbenner), School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey; and National Resource Center on Nutrition and Aging, Meals on Wheels America, Alexandria, Virginia (Ms Netterville).
Correspondence: William K. Hallman, PhD, Department of Human Ecology, Rutgers University School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, 55 Dudley Rd, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 ([email protected]).
The authors thank the Meals on Wheels America and the staff and clients at their 5 partner agencies. They also thank those at Rutgers University who helped throughout the data collection, cleaning, and analysis of this very large and involved study: Fred Giliberti, Scott Schefske, Mingyue Zhang, Albert Nedelman, Meera Dhawan, and the database experts Lucas Marxen and Dan Farnsworth.This study was funded by National Integrated Food Safety Initiative grant from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA NIFSI # 2010-51110-21078).The authors have disclosed that they have no significant relationships with, or financial interest in, any commercial companies pertaining to this article.Supplemental digital content is available for this article. Direct URL citations appear in the printed text and are provided in the HTML and PDF versions of this article on the journal's Web site (http://topicsinclinicalnutrition.com).
doi: 10.1097/TIN.0000000000000117
