Laguna, L, Mingioni, M, Maitre, I et al. (11 more authors) (2016) Perception of Difficulties Encountered in Eating Process from European Elderlies' Perspective. Journal of Texture Studies, 47 (4). pp. 342-352. ISSN 0022-4901
Abstract
To maintain wellbeing, independence and nourishment of elderly population, one promising strategy is to provide home care by delivering food using “meals on wheels” (MoW) system. Even when the food is home-delivered, the difficulties encountered by elderlies during the overall eating process can be a limiting factor. Hence, the objective of this self-reported study was to explore the difficulty perception in the entire eating process from opening up the package, reheating, hand manipulation and oral processing of the food to bolus swallowing in 405 elderly consumers from five European countries (Finland, France, Poland, Spain and United Kingdom) with three different levels of dependency (category 1: participants living at home with help needed for food purchasing; category 2: participants living at home who need help for meal preparation or meal delivery; category 3: participants living in nursing homes/sheltered accommodation). Frequencies of responses and cross tabulation test were calculated for the difficulties perceived. Results show that the most difficult package to open was the cap irrespective of country or dependency levels (at P < 0.05). Although, glass was the most preferred packaging material, category (P = 0.034) and country (P = 0.001) had significant influence. Self-feeding dependency was correlated with the eating difficulties perceived, category 1 participants did not perceive difficulties in the meal preparation and reported minimal difficulties in the hand manipulation and oral processing (<30%), whilst the difficulties perceived by categories 2 and 3 were significantly higher (∼60% of participants). The insights generated might be helpful for designing efficient MoW systems with appropriate user-friendly features.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Laguna, L., Mingioni, M., Maitre, I., Vanwymelbeke, V., Pirttijärvi, T., Artigas, M.G., Kautola, H., Järvenpää, E., Mäenpää, T., Tahvonen, R., Grabska-Kobylecka, I., Nowak, D., Chen, J. and Sarkar, A. (2016), Perception of Difficulties Encountered in Eating Process from European Elderlies' Perspective. Journal of Texture Studies, 47 (4), pp. 342-352, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jtxs.12192. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. |
Keywords: | Ageing; Independence; Meals on wheels; Survey; Eating difficulty perception |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Food Science and Nutrition (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EU - European Union 311754 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 28 Jun 2016 11:13 |
Last Modified: | 04 Nov 2017 07:41 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jtxs.12192 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/jtxs.12192 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:97549 |