tailieunhanh - Determinants of Healthy Eating in Community-dwelling Elderly People

Among seniors, food choice and related activities are affected by health status, biological changes wrought by aging and functional abilities, which are mediated in the larger arena by familial, social and economic factors. Determinants of healthy eating stem from individual and collective factors. Individual components include age, sex, education, physiological and health issues, psychological attributes, lifestyle practices, and knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviours, in addition to other universal dietary determinants such as income, social status and culture. Collective determinants of healthy eating, such as accessible food labels, an appropriate food shopping environment, the marketing of the “healthy eating” message, adequate social support and provision of effective, community-based meal delivery. | Determinants of Healthy Eating in Community-dwelling Elderly People Hélène Payette PhD1 Bryna Shatenstein PhD PDt2 ABSTRACT Among seniors food choice and related activities are affected by health status biological changes wrought by aging and functional abilities which are mediated in the larger arena by familial social and economic factors. Determinants of healthy eating stem from individual and collective factors. Individual components include age sex education physiological and health issues psychological attributes lifestyle practices and knowledge attitudes beliefs and behaviours in addition to other universal dietary determinants such as income social status and culture. Collective determinants of healthy eating such as accessible food labels an appropriate food shopping environment the marketing of the healthy eating message adequate social support and provision of effective community-based meal delivery services have the potential to mediate dietary habits and thus foster healthy eating. However there is a startling paucity of research in this area and this is particularly so in Canada. Using search and inclusion criteria and key search strings to guide the research this article outlines the state of knowledge and research gaps in the area of determinants of healthy eating among Canadian seniors. In conclusion dietary self-management persists in well independent seniors without financial constraints whatever their living arrangements whereas nutritional risk is high among those in poor health and lacking in resources. Further study is necessary to clarify contributors to healthy eating in order to permit the development and evaluation of programs and services designed to encourage and facilitate healthy eating in older Canadians. MeSH terms Elderly nutrition determinants eating habits healthy eating 1. Research Centre on Aging Sherbrooke Geriatric University Institute Sherbrooke and Faculte de médecine et des sciences de la santé Université de Sherbrooke .