Accessible and efficient food for elderly persons, in care homes or in their own homes Authors Gloria Arbonés Vilà Institut d'Estudis Catalans M. Assumpció Roset Elias Institut d'Estudis Catalans Isabel Puigdueta Lucas Institut d'Estudis Catalans Keywords: aging, health, food, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability. Abstract The aging of the population has been a characteristic of our country’s demographic evolution in recent years. It is marked by a decrease of the birth rate and an increase of life expectancy. Although the impact of Covid-19 is not known yet, there is evidence of significant biopsychosocial heterogeneity among the so-called elderly population. There is an increase in fragility and vulnerability that may hinder the achievement of healthy eating goals, which is further complicated if we consider the necessary supply of energy and nutrients and the therapeutic role of food, as well as relational and sociability aspects. Moreover, these goals are difficult to achieve if they do not take into account person-centered care (PCA) and do not consider social and health aspects, regardless of the place where elderly people live. The paper concludes with a brief summarized overview of different aspects of the food circuit, together with possible lines of work for improving its effectiveness and efficiency. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Author Biographies Gloria Arbonés Vilà, Institut d'Estudis Catalans Llicenciada en farmàcia. Màster en Nutrició i Dietètica. Exdirectora d’una residència sociosanitària. Membre de la Vocalia d’Alimentació i Nutrició del Col·legi de Farmacèutics de Barcelona (COFB). Membre del Grup d’Estudis en Nutrició i Alimentació (GENA) i de l’Associació Catalana de Ciències de l’Alimentació (ACCA). M. Assumpció Roset Elias, Institut d'Estudis Catalans Doctora en farmàcia. Llicenciada en ciències biològiques. Exvocal d’Alimentació i Nutrició del COFB. Exdirectora del programa «Salut a l’Escola», del Departament d’Educació de la Generalitat de Catalunya. Membre de GENA i de l’ACCA. Isabel Puigdueta Lucas, Institut d'Estudis Catalans Llicenciada en farmàcia. Màster en Nutrició. Exprofessora de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Membre de GENA i de l’ACCA. Downloads PDF (Català) How to Cite Arbonés Vilà, G., Roset Elias, M. A., & Puigdueta Lucas, I. (2021). Accessible and efficient food for elderly persons, in care homes or in their own homes. TECA: Tecnologia I Ciència Dels Aliments, 20, 13–21. Retrieved from https://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/TECA/article/view/149508 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Issue Vol. 20 (2021) Section Articles License The intellectual property of the articles belongs to the respective authors. 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