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Recipe for Life : Helping older people who live alone to eat well
— final report of research, September 2005 | | Author(s) | Chris Jones, Belinda Dewar, Caroline Donaldson |
| Corporate Author | Royal Bank of Scotland Centre for the Older Person's Agenda - COPA, Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh |
| Publisher | The Royal Bank of Scotland Centre for the Older Person's Agenda, Edinburgh, 2005 |
| Pages | 111 pp |
| Source | Queen Margaret University College, Corstorphine Campus, Edinburgh, EH12 8TS. website: http://www.qmuc.ac.uk/opa |
| Keywords | Nutrition ; Diet ; Food ; Living alone ; Projects ; Scotland. |
| Annotation | Recipe for Life is a 3-year project which aims to find better ways to support older people to eat well. The project is being undertaken by the Royal Bank of Scotland Centre for the Older Person's Agenda at Queen Margaret University College, in partnership with the Dementia Services Development Centre (DSDC) at the University of Stirling and Age Concern Scotland. The main aim is to identify action that can be taken to improve the physical and social well-being ot older people who live alone and have difficulty leaving home in relation to their nutritional and food-related needs, from the perspective of older people, family members, friends and social work staff. This report describes the researchers' approach to the project, and what they found on: the range of food-related services available; difficulties experienced by frail older people; assessing food-related needs; the meaning of "eating well"; factors affecting appetite or motivation to eat; and support and barriers to eating well. Appendices include examples of documentation used in relation to the data collection which was carried out in two Scottish local authorities. The project was funded by Zurich Financial Services Community Trust under their Zurich Cares Older People Programme. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060228211 B |
| Classmark | CF: CFD: YP: K8: 3E: 9A |
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