Interpersonal determinants of eating behaviours in Dutch older adults living independently: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Eating behaviour of older adults is influenced by a complex interaction of determinants. Understanding the determinants of a specific target group is important when developing targeted health-promoting strategies. The aim of this study was to explore interpersonal determinants of eating behaviours in older adults living independently in a specific neighbourhood in the Netherlands.

Methods

In the neighbourhood of interest, populated by relatively many older adults, fifteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with independently living older adults (aged 76.9 ± 6.4y). Interviews were complemented with observations among the target group: three occasions of grocery shopping and three collective eating occasions in the neighbourhood. A thematic approach was used

SUBMITTER: Bukman AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7656669 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature