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Description of a mixed ethnic, elderly population
— 3. Special diets, food preferences, and medicinal intakes | | Author(s) | Johnnie W Prothro, Christine A Rosenbloom |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological sciences and Medical Sciences, vol 54A, no 6, June 1999 |
| Pages | pp M329-332 |
| Keywords | Ethnic groups ; Diet ; Food ; Drugs ; Meals on wheels ; Luncheon clubs ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The objective was to assess the use of special diets prescribed by doctor, food preferences, and daily and occasional drug use by older participants in a US Title-III-C Nutrition Program. Data were collected by non-random interviews of luncheon club and meals-on-wheels clients. Chi-square was used to assess whether food and drug behaviours were related to ethnicity, age, gender, congregate versus meals-on-wheels clients, proportion of midday meal usually eaten, and whether clients lived alone or with others. Special diets and daily and occasional medications showed no significant differences. Broccoli was the food disliked most frequently. Suggestions that certain foods be served more frequently were greater among whites than blacks, and among home delivery clients. Those who regularly ate half or less of their midday meal made more suggestions for cooking foods differently, and had longer lists of favourite foods than those who ate all or most of the meal. Those living alone had more suggestions for cooking foods differently and serving certain items more often than those living with others. The study notes concern at the high level of polypharmacy in the population, and vulnerability to nutritional deficiency. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990826206 A |
| Classmark | TK: CFD: YP: LLD: NS: NRA: 3F: 7T |
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