An interventional study of Virtual Senior Center - GrandPad and Virtual Senior Center - No GrandPad in Social Isolation in Older Adults, Quality of Life (QOL) and Activities of Daily Living, sponsored by Washington University School of Medicine. Enrolling by invitation at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 65 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-07-17.
Sponsored by Washington University School of Medicine · Not applicable, Interventional, and Other
In a 3-group trial with randomization and follow-up for 12 months, we will compare use of the VSC as well as health and quality of life outcomes among 650 older adults in St. Louis who receive either: (1) home delivered meals AND a GrandPad; (2) home-delivered meals but no GrandPad for 6 months; and (3) in person meals at senior center but no GrandPad.
The aims of the study are:
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Exclusion Criteria:
This group will receive a GrandPad right away after they complete the baseline survey
Behavioral: Virtual Senior Center - GrandPad
Delayed interventional. This group will receive a GrandPad after 6 months.
Behavioral: Virtual Senior Center - GrandPad
This group will not receive a GrandPad but will get access to the Virtual Senior Center
Behavioral: Virtual Senior Center - No GrandPad
The Virtual Senior Center engages older adults in programs and services online with the help of a GrandPad.
Participants will be given information to access the website when they are able from their own phone, tablet, or computer.
The Social Isolation Scale in Older Adults (Nicholson et al., 2020; The Gerontologist)
This 6-item questionnaire measures the extent to which an individual feels socially unconnected, using 2 related constructs (3 items per construct): quantity of social contacts and sense of relationship. The response options for social contacts ranges from 1 (none) to 5 (6 or more) and the sense of relationship ranges from 1(strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). The possible summed scores range from 6 to 30, with higher scores indicating less social isolation.
Time frame: 12 month
Digital Social Participation (Anderberg et al., 2021; JMIR)
This 6-item questionnaire measures extent to which someone feels that digital technology is beneficial in their life. Response options range from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree), so total summed scores range from 6 -30. A higher scores indicates more positive perceptions of digital technology.
Time frame: 12 month
Plan to share: Yes — The raw survey response data including dates collected, as well as participant ID codes generated for this study will be shared in order to link the five waves of survey data as well as documentation of participation. All respondent identifiers (e.g., names, addresses) will be removed before sharing. Final de-identified intervention data and Common Survey 4 data will be shared with the CEAL (community engagement Alliance) Technical Assistance Team. Other CEAL researchers will be allowed to request common survey data. We will share all publicly accessible files on WashU Research Data, an institutional repository managed by the Washington University in St. Louis Libraries that uses a cloud-based hosted repository service called TIND as its platform. TIND is based on the open-source Invenio software developed at the research institute CERN to manage its own scholarly output. TIND uses an OAIS-compliant approach to preservation, with redundancy backup, conversion to archival file format
Supporting information: Analytic code
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