Publication: Exploring the experience and determinants of the food choices and eating practices of elderly thai people: A qualitative study
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2020-11-01
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20726643
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Mahidol University
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Nutrients. Vol.12, No.11 (2020), 1-16
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Chalobol Chalermsri, Sibylle Herzig van Wees, Shirin Ziaei, Eva Charlotte Ekström, Weerasak Muangpaisan, Syed Moshfiqur Rahman Exploring the experience and determinants of the food choices and eating practices of elderly thai people: A qualitative study. Nutrients. Vol.12, No.11 (2020), 1-16. doi:10.3390/nu12113497 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/60352
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Exploring the experience and determinants of the food choices and eating practices of elderly thai people: A qualitative study
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© MDPI AG. All rights reserved. Over the past decade, Thailand has experienced a rapid increase in its elderly population. Many unfavorable health outcomes among elderly people are associated with nutrition. Nutrition in elderly people is affected by physical, mental, and social factors. This study explored the food choices and dietary practices among community-dwelling elderly people in Thailand from the perspective of both caregivers and the elderly people themselves. Six focus group discussions and six semistructured interviews were conducted in the Samut Sakhon Province of Thailand. Deductive thematic analyses were conducted based on the “food choice process model framework.” The results show that physical and mental factors and societal factors are important determinants of food choices. Moreover, a changing food environment and economic factors were found to affect food choices. Issues of trust in food safety and food markets were highlighted as growing issues. Therefore, fostering healthy food choice interventions that consider both environmental and societal aspects is necessary.