Dining comfort in elderly care facility dining rooms and influencing factors before and after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed dining modes in elderly care facilities. This study explores the relationship between the dining environment of four elderly care facilities and the sensitivity of the elderly residents to it before and after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods

The study examined differences in subjective comfort levels by measuring the facilities' physical environment, analysing dining behavior, and surveying the elderly residents. And the study examined how the interaction between the physical environment factors, demographic factors, and dining mode affected the residents' evaluation of their dining comfort.

Results

(1) The physical environmental parameters of the four dining rooms differed between the pre- and post-epidemic

SUBMITTER: Mu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10022735 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature