Service awareness among older adults experiencing barriers to food and eating
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Service awareness among older adults experiencing barriers to food and eating. / Vaudin, Anna; Dean, Wesley; Chen, Jie; Sahyoun, Nadine R.
I: Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, Bind 55, Nr. 8, 2023, s. 564-574.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Service awareness among older adults experiencing barriers to food and eating
AU - Vaudin, Anna
AU - Dean, Wesley
AU - Chen, Jie
AU - Sahyoun, Nadine R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Objective: To explore (1) the services older adults use to address the barriers to food access they face and (2) how they found out about these services. Design: Semistructured, basic descriptive qualitative in-person interviews. Setting: Senior center and participants’ homes. Participants: A convenience sample of 24 older adults recruited from suburban and urban settings. Primarily Black females, living alone, and able to leave home without help. Phenomenon of Interest: Financial and nonfinancial barriers to food access, awareness of services available. Analysis: Codes were assigned to portions of the text in which participants described how they learned about a service. These codes were categorized into one of the 3 larger themes that emerged: (1) intentionally sought by the participant, (2) intentional outreach by the service, and (3) encounters in daily life and environment. Results: Most connections to services were made through encounters in participants’ daily life and environment; for example, word of mouth from family, friends or neighbors; connection through other services; referral from health care professionals; and seeing the service in their neighborhood.Conclusions and Implications: Robust social networks, medical screening, and referral may promote awareness of food assistance services. Future research and outreach should target those who are most isolated.
AB - Objective: To explore (1) the services older adults use to address the barriers to food access they face and (2) how they found out about these services. Design: Semistructured, basic descriptive qualitative in-person interviews. Setting: Senior center and participants’ homes. Participants: A convenience sample of 24 older adults recruited from suburban and urban settings. Primarily Black females, living alone, and able to leave home without help. Phenomenon of Interest: Financial and nonfinancial barriers to food access, awareness of services available. Analysis: Codes were assigned to portions of the text in which participants described how they learned about a service. These codes were categorized into one of the 3 larger themes that emerged: (1) intentionally sought by the participant, (2) intentional outreach by the service, and (3) encounters in daily life and environment. Results: Most connections to services were made through encounters in participants’ daily life and environment; for example, word of mouth from family, friends or neighbors; connection through other services; referral from health care professionals; and seeing the service in their neighborhood.Conclusions and Implications: Robust social networks, medical screening, and referral may promote awareness of food assistance services. Future research and outreach should target those who are most isolated.
KW - community-dwelling older adults
KW - food access
KW - service awareness
KW - social networks
U2 - 10.1016/j.jneb.2023.04.005
DO - 10.1016/j.jneb.2023.04.005
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 37389500
AN - SCOPUS:85164365804
VL - 55
SP - 564
EP - 574
JO - Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
JF - Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
SN - 1499-4046
IS - 8
ER -
ID: 360137979