Meeting the Dietary Needs of Older Adults Exploring the Impact of the Physical, Social, and Cultural Environment: Workshop Summary (2016) / Chapter Skim
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The workshop was designed to examine factors in the physical, social, and cultural environment that affect the ability of older adults to meet their daily dietary needs. The workshop planning committee highlighted several areas of focus 1 The planning committee's role was limited to planning the workshop, and the workshop summary has been prepared by the workshop rapporteurs as a factual summary of what occurred at the workshop.
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. The workshop addressed community-based delivery of nutrition services for older adults and identified nutrition interventions and model programs that support the transition to home care as well as healthy and independent living in the community.
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The Coalition is a nonprofit that brings together health care providers, insurers, the food and agriculture sectors, and other nonprofits to establish a national framework for programs, policies, and research to address the problem of hunger as a health issue in a proactive and systematic way. This means creating sustainable business models, promoting education, providing incentives for healthy eating and carrying out cutting-edge research.
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This new paradigm will need a greater focus on the nutrition needs of older adults in the development of food products, in the retail setting, in federal assistance programs and nutrition guidance, and in community initiatives. For example, the AARP Foundation is working on a food insecurity nutrition incentive program in Mississippi and Tennessee.
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Kearney Global Maturing Consumer Study where more than 3,000 consumers ages 60 and older were interviewed in person in seven countries that represent 60 percent of the world population. The survey asked them about their perceptions on consumer shopping, products, and related issues.
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A.T. Kearney has conducted research in collaboration with the AARP Foundation on senior nutrition and meeting the needs of economically disadvantaged seniors.
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In concert with traditional approaches to food distribution, such as industry donations from distributors and wholesalers, community food drives, and food purchased using donated money, innovative ideas about how to deliver food to older adults in need will be significant (see Figure 1-1)
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WHAT IS HEALTHY AGING? Simin Meydani, Director of the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, opened her presentation by 3 Ella's Kitchen™ is a company that makes organic baby and toddler food that is sold in supermarkets internationally.
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, also emphasized that healthy aging goes beyond the absence of disease and disability. More recently, the Canadian government went even further in their definition, describing healthy aging in holistic terms as "a lifelong process of optimizing opportunities for improving and preserving health and physical, social, and mental wellness, independence, quality of life, and enhancing successful life-course transitions" (Health Canada, 2002)
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Moderate supporters were higher amount of exercise, better self-related health, and lower systolic blood pressure. Factors that had limited support for healthy aging included higher income, greater education, current marriage, and white ethnicity.
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Several behavioral determinants were associated with healthy aging: normal weight, physical activity, not smoking, moderate alcohol consumption, absence of depression, and robust social contact. Meydani then presented findings from Young et al.
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. Meeting the Criteria for Successful Aging Meydani noted that one challenge researchers and health care practitioners currently face is how best to use these findings to optimize cognitive health as people age.
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2000. The role of nutrition in maintaining health in the nation's elderly: Evaluating coverage of nutrition services for the Medicare population.
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