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Factors associated with food insecurity among US elderly persons — importance of functional impairments
Author(s)	Jung Sun Lee, Edward A Frongillo Jr
Journal title	Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 56B, no 2, March 2001
Pages	pp S94-S99
Keywords	Malnutrition ; Food hygiene ; Poor elderly ; Self care capacity ; Mobility ; United States of America.
Annotation	Data from the US Third National Health and Nutrition Survey (1988-94) and the Nutrition Survey of the Elderly in New York State (1994) were used with multiple regression and a hierarchical logistic regression, to examine how functional impairments, and socio-demographic and economic factors contributed to food insecurity in older people. Low income, less education, minority status, food assistance programme participation, and social isolation, also functional impairments, were significantly related to food insecurity. This suggests that food insecurity in older people comprises not only limited food affordability, availability and accessibility, but also altered food use. Food-insecure older people experience multiple problems that prevent them from achieving nutritional well-being and seeking food assistance programmes. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-010418210 A
Classmark	CSM: YKM: F:W6: CA: C4: 7T
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