Abstract:Nutrition risk is linked to hospitalization, frailty, depression, and death. Loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic may have heightened nutrition risk. We sought to determine prevalence of high nutrition risk and if loneliness, mental health, and assistance with meal preparation/delivery were associated with risk in community-dwelling older adults (65+ years) after the first wave of COVID-19, in association analyses and when adjusting for meaningful covariates. Data were collected from May 12 to August 19, 20… Show more
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