Food Insecurity Among Older Adults: 10-Year National Trends and Associations with Diet Quality.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objectives

Food insecurity has emerged as a critical health issue for older adults. Food insecurity has been shown to disrupt healthy eating patterns, but these associations have not been widely studied among older adults. The objectives of the present study were to: (1) examine national trends in food insecurity across a 10-year period, and (2) evaluate the associations between food insecurity and multiple diet quality indices in a recent and nationally representative sample of adults aged 60 or older.

Design

Cross-sectional analysis of the 2007-2016 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys.

Setting

Nationally representative sample of the United States.

Participants

The analytic sample was comprised of 5,097 adults aged 60 or older, with ho

SUBMITTER: Leung CW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8341441 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature