Nutrition
This will involve a comprehensive mapping of food and meal services with an emphasis on cost, availability, and user-friendliness for the project’s target group. They will emphasize assessment of hydration status, which is often critically important and not easy to measure. In this regard, they will test sensor technologies and assess whether these can be useful in protecting older adults against dehydration. In addition, a PhD candidate with a background in nutrition will be hired to work with both quantitative and qualitative dietary data. A pilot study among healthy adults is currently in progress to assess the performance of a newly developed hydration sensor. The findings of the pilot study will be used to guide the choice of methods for hydration assessment in older adults with CCC.