Navigating Food Insecurity as a Rural Older Adult: The Importance of Congregate Meal Sites, Social Networks and Transportation Services
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2021-10-30
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Taylor & Francis, Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition
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Abstract
To explore how older adults in rural communities navigate
food insecurity, ten focus groups were held in Indiana, USA
with 65 discussants. Recordings underwent inductive qualitative data analysis. Driving and transport remain a barrier to
rural food access. Living alone is another contributor to food
insecurity, while older adults’ social networks are protective.
Congregate meal sites are critical to maintaining nutrition
and are underfunded; one-third of this region’s meal sites
closed in 2019. These must be maintained and expanded.
Transportation to food outlets is needed. Mechanisms that
reinforce older adults’ social networks can build upon an
existing asset.
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Community Resilience, Center for Rural Engagement, Older adults, food security, rural areas, food insecurity, mental health, social networks, rural transportation, congregate meals
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Julia C.D. Valliant, Mecca E. Burris, Kamila Czebotar, Philip B. Stafford, Stacey A. Giroux, Angela Babb, Kurt Waldman & Daniel C. Knudsen (2021): Navigating Food Insecurity as a Rural Older Adult: The Importance of Congregate Meal Sites, Social Networks and Transportation Services, Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition, DOI: 10.1080/19320248.2021.1977208
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