Abstract

FRANCO GIRALDO, Fabio Andrés  and  ARBOLEDA MONTOYA, Luz Marina. Social and cultural characteristics influencing alimentary and nutritional aspects of elderly people, living in a center care Colonia de Belencito, Medellín-Colombia. Perspect Nut Hum [online]. 2010, vol.12, n.1, pp.61-74. ISSN 0124-4108.

Objective: The main purpose of this research was to determine social and cultural characteristics influencing alimentary and nutritional aspects of elderly people, living in a center care called Colonia de Belencito Medellin. Methods: This is a qualitative study that including different techniques to collect data like direct observational process, semi structured surveys and focus groups method. Results: The main results showed in this study was that elderly concept and socio-cultural characteristics influencing nutrition behaviors in this population, don't fit with the proposed model for an active and healthy elderly process; the specific techniques to design menus for this specific group of population are submitted to a classical medical nutrition model: elderly people affirmed that they prefer traditional food, because of it is a socializing process that establish cultural identity of alimentary meaning.

Keywords : feeding behavior; traditional food; food services; homes for the aged; nutrition programs and policies; collective feeding; aged.

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