TY - JOUR
T1 - Senior Centers and Nutritional Outcomes
T2 - A Texas Example
AU - Swan, James H.
AU - Severance, Jennifer J.
AU - Turner, Keith
PY - 2016/7/28
Y1 - 2016/7/28
N2 - Healthy diet and weight control are important for elders and senior centers (SCs). The authors consider effects of SCs on attendee nutrition and health and efforts to improve diets and weight. Data derive from surveys in 2006 (N = 798) and 2007 (N = 742) at 21 multipurpose SCs in Tarrant County, Texas, supplemented with data from 2012 (N = 1,402). Measures included attendee agreement that SC meals improved nutrition, improved health, attempts to improve diets, and success in controlling weight. Cumulative and binary logistic regression methods were employed. SC attendance and social engagement explained agreement that SC meals improved nutrition and health but were not shown to predict changes in diet or weight control. Findings suggest success of SC programs, as well as physician recommendations, in influencing attendee nutritional behavior and perceptions of nutrition and health effects. Practice recommendations include SC collaborations with local health providers to promote attendee nutritional health.
AB - Healthy diet and weight control are important for elders and senior centers (SCs). The authors consider effects of SCs on attendee nutrition and health and efforts to improve diets and weight. Data derive from surveys in 2006 (N = 798) and 2007 (N = 742) at 21 multipurpose SCs in Tarrant County, Texas, supplemented with data from 2012 (N = 1,402). Measures included attendee agreement that SC meals improved nutrition, improved health, attempts to improve diets, and success in controlling weight. Cumulative and binary logistic regression methods were employed. SC attendance and social engagement explained agreement that SC meals improved nutrition and health but were not shown to predict changes in diet or weight control. Findings suggest success of SC programs, as well as physician recommendations, in influencing attendee nutritional behavior and perceptions of nutrition and health effects. Practice recommendations include SC collaborations with local health providers to promote attendee nutritional health.
KW - Andersen behavioral model
KW - Senior centers
KW - health improvement
KW - meals programs
KW - nutrition
KW - primary care provider recommendations
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84969135176&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/19371918.2015.1137506
DO - 10.1080/19371918.2015.1137506
M3 - Article
C2 - 27191952
AN - SCOPUS:84969135176
SN - 1937-1918
VL - 31
SP - 439
EP - 452
JO - Social Work in Public Health
JF - Social Work in Public Health
IS - 5
ER -