Sharing meals: promising nutritional interventions for primary health care including nursing students and elderly people.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The risk of malnutrition among elderly people is high and living alone increases the risk. As the number of older persons living alone is expected to increase due to the demographic development of an increasing older population, more knowledge about low-cost, sustainable nutritional interventions is needed. The purpose of this study was to investigate how nursing students can be a resource in the nutritional care of older persons living alone by sharing weekly meals.

Methods

Twenty-three nursing students and 23 elderly people who lived alone and received home nursing care participated in the project period of 9 weeks and shared 1-2 weekly meals. Shortly after the study period, 13 students and 4 elderly persons were interviewed in individual, face-to-face, semi-str

SUBMITTER: Alne EKF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8048158 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature