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Therapeutic Home Delivery Meals for Elderly Patients through Private Food Catering

المصدر: المجلة الدولية للتراث والسياحة والضيافة
الناشر: جامعة الفيوم - كلية السياحة والفنادق
المؤلف الرئيسي: El-Sayed, Hala Hassan (Author)
مؤلفين آخرين: El-Shafe, Mona Mohamed (Co-Author)
المجلد/العدد: مج7, ع1
محكمة: نعم
الدولة: مصر
التاريخ الميلادي: 2013
الصفحات: 1 - 15
ISSN: 2636-4115
رقم MD: 996928
نوع المحتوى: بحوث ومقالات
اللغة: الإنجليزية
قواعد المعلومات: HumanIndex
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كلمات المؤلف المفتاحية:
Food Catering | Therapeutic meals | Elderly | Home delivery | Malnutrition
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المستخلص: Background & aim Eating well is important at any age but health issues and physical limitations sometimes make it difficult for elders to get the nutrients they need for a balanced diet. The statistical data indicated that poor nutrition and malnutrition occur in 15 to 50 percent of elderly population and indicates the number of older people grows as well as it becomes even more important that they should be in a good health. hdd Elderly people are a vulnerable group and they should be recognized as a specific group for the purpose of nutritional health care service which needs to be fully integrated with hospitality services promotion. On other hand, nutritional health care policy developments in the past few years have provided opportunities to drive improvements in food catering. Therefore food service sector should obtain these opportunities to promote good quality, safe, nutritionally adequate and appropriate patient-focused of food and beverage. It is estimated that 5% of elderly people in their own homes cannot cook a main meal, From this standpoint recent study aim to obtain elderly patients opinions regarding home delivery service of therapeutic meals through restaurants or special catering to provide an opportunity for older individuals to live their years in dignity by providing healthy, appealing meals; promoting health, preventing disease; reducing malnutrition risk and improving nutritional status; in addition, linking the service of older adults to hospitality services as a specific group. Methods: (220) questionnaires were distributed to elder patients on 4 hospitals in Alexandria city, It resulted in 202 completed responses with a recovery rate percentage of (91.8 %,). Questions assessed: Demographic properties, health status data, following therapeutic diet data, rating scale for the Therapeutic meals delivery services. Frequency and percentage were calculated as a descriptive data, the opinion of the participants evaluated by using likert scale. Results and discussion: The results of the study suggested that the therapeutic food delivery service for the elderly is an innovative service designed to serve the elderly in their homes and the expansion of facilities for the elderly to alleviate the suffering of their shoulders, and through the provision of food needs of the elderly resident inside his house without a breadwinner or within the natural family The study has been achieve to several recommendations, including mainstreaming home delivery service of therapeutic meals to elderly guesthouse and other groups in the society and more future research in this field.

ISSN: 2636-4115