United Kingdom Dissemination Workshop

26 October 2005, London, UK
The UK Food in Later Life project team held their Dissemination Workshop at the National Heart and Lung Institute, London. This one day event was well attended achieving 92 delegates including representatives from industry, government, voluntary organisations and academics. The event was chaired by Baroness Margaret Sharp with a keynote speech from Baroness Sally Greengross, OBE.
At the workshop, discussions were organised around four different topics - the role of shopping for older people, what experiences they have; the role of meals - how important are meals to older people. The third session was organised around what kind of foods they buy and how they go about preparing them. The final session considered the services that are there for older people - how do they experience them and how do the service providers experience providing these types of services to older people.

Out of the Food in Later Life research came some key challenges. The team put these to the audience to discuss as a group how to provide better services for older people. The discussions were around - ‘who should take ownership of some of these issues’, ‘who can do something about them’ and ‘who can make sure the needs of older people are going to be met?’ The results of the discussions have been summarised and are available on the project website together with the media release, videos and transcripts of the speakers from the day and comments from attendees.

Food as Glue, 26 October 2005

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