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Relationships between food, nutrition and well-being for people living in regional retirement villages

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dc.contributor.authorReis, J.
dc.contributor.authorNagy, J.
dc.contributor.editorBaho, S.M.
dc.contributor.editorKatsas, G.A.
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractIn Western economies, advances in health and medicine have extended human life expectancies at the same time as birth rates have declined. The emerging skewed older population demographic has many consequences for housing, health care and economic development. These issues are global concerns with different impacts across city and regional locations as older citizens often become removed from increasingly mobile extended families. This chapter reports on outcomes from a study of the relationships between food, nutrition, and well-being for citizens living in two regional Australian retirement villages. Research initially focussed on the presumed importance for older adults of socialisation opportunities that food and food preparation provide for nutritional well-being. This presumption was dispelled by the combination of traditional research methodologies with a guided narrative inquiry, auto-ethnographic approach that recognises the importance of time, personal contexts, and space. Described is how the survey collection process and subsequent focus groups provided temporal and personal insights to assist with reflective data interpretation. The 'culture' and social mores of the retirement village community allowed data to be considered inways that have proved more meaningful. Beginning with perspectives derived from broad-based literature about nutritional intake, food socialisation, and well-being for older adults, a narrative about the experience or 'stories' of data collection embedded within time and place is revealed.
dc.identifier.citationSource details - Title: Making sense of food: exploring cultural and culinary identities, 2016 / Baho, S.M., Katsas, G.A. (ed./s), Ch.10, pp.175-198
dc.identifier.isbn9781848884656
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11541.2/117785
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInter-Disciplinary Press
dc.publisher.placeUK
dc.relation.fundingMount Gambier City Council
dc.rightsCopyright 2015 Inter-Disciplinary Press
dc.subjectfood
dc.subjectfood preparation
dc.subjectnutrition
dc.subjectolder people
dc.subjectageing
dc.subjectretirement
dc.subjectrural communities
dc.subjectculture
dc.subjectprivacy
dc.subjectindependence
dc.subjectsocialisation
dc.subjectauto-ethnography
dc.subjectnarrative inquiry
dc.titleRelationships between food, nutrition and well-being for people living in regional retirement villages
dc.typeBook chapter
pubs.publication-statusPublished
ror.mmsid9916021010701831

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