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| Healthy eating in old age | | Author(s) | Sally Herne |
| Journal title | British Food Journal, vol 95, no 5, 1993 |
| Pages | pp 36-39 |
| Keywords | Diet ; Health [elderly] ; Standards of provision. |
| Annotation | It is now recognized that conventional dietary guidelines should apply to older people, irrespective of whether they live at home or are in residential care. The author assesses some 1980s and 1990s health education pronouncements. The National Advisory Committee for Nutrition Education (NACNE) report, "Proposals for nutritional guidelines for health education in Britain" (1983) paid little attention to those over retirement age, other than to suggest increasing dietary fibre. The view that altering diet in old age has only a limited impact on health status has been reassessed: the 1992 White Paper, "The health of the nation" set specific targets for older people. The Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy (COMA) in its 1992 report "The nutrition of elderly people" recommended that most people aged over 65 "should adopt, where possible, similar patterns of eating and lifestyle to those advised for maintaining health in younger adults". The author concludes by stressing the value of food as a source of pleasure for older people, and the need for a more individualistic approach to meeting healthy guidelines in so diverse a group. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980106221 A |
| Classmark | CFD: CC: 583 * |
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