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| Food security for community-living elderly people in Beijing, China | | Author(s) | Yang Cheng, Mark Rosenberg, Jie Yu, Hua Zhang |
| Journal title | Health and Social Care in the Community, vol 24, no 6, November 2016 |
| Publisher | Wiley, November 2016 |
| Pages | pp 747-757 |
| Source | wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/hsc |
| Keywords | Nutrition ; Meals services ; Diet ; Living in the community ; Urban areas ; Indicators ; Quantitative studies ; China. |
| Annotation | Food security has been identified as an important issue for older people's quality of life and ageing in place. A food security index composed of three indicators (food intake, food quality and food affordability) was developed to measure the food security status of community-living older people. Food security was then examined among community-living older people in the central urban districts of Beijing, China. Data were collected by a questionnaire survey in the summer of 2013; the response rate was 78.5%. Descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression were applied to analyse food security and the associations between food security and demographic and socioeconomic factors. The results showed that 54.2% of the surveyed older people experienced food security. Participants with better education (OR = 1.68) and better health (OR = 1.47) were more likely to experience food security. The young-old were less likely to experience food security than the older old (OR = 0.94). Older people who lived with their children were less likely to experience food security than those who lived alone (OR = 0.43). The results of impact factors on food security highlight both similarities with studies from more developed countries and the unique challenges faced in a rapidly changing China with its unique social, cultural and political systems. The food security index that was developed in this study is a simple and effective measure of food security status, which can be used in surveys for evaluating the food security status of older people in the future. |
| Accession Number | CPA-170120272 A |
| Classmark | CF: NR: CFD: K4: RK: 3RI: 3DQ: 7DC |
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