Spanish Dissemination Workshop

1-2 December 2005, Barcelona, Spain
The Food Studies Observatory of the University of Barcelona, located at the Parc Científic de Barcelona (PCB, Barcelona Science Park), organised an international congress entitled “Eating habits and quality of life in the elderly population”. This congress was held on the 1st and 2nd December at the Cosmocaixa, Barcelona (Teodor Roviralta, 47-51). The congress was opened with presentations by Ricard Gomà, Barcelona City Council’s Councillor for Social Welfare, Margaret Lumbers, and Rosa Gras, deputy director of the Dept. for the Elderly Community of the Fundació La Caixa . These opening sessions were followed by a lecture on “ Food, life and person”, given by Àngels Treserras, an expert in neurology.
The congress programme included four thematic sessions devoted to: perceptions and use of functional food by the elderly in Spain and in Europe; problems of food supply and planning and preparation of meals; the role of social services and informal distribution networks, the preparation and consumption of food; and the role of meals in the elderly community and their relation with quality of life. In addition, all these sessions included a diagnosis of these issues for Spain, a comparison with Europe, and experiences and responses from the industrial sector and public administration, together with an evaluation by scientists and academics.

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