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Project #:
QLK1-CT-2002-02447
Acronym:
SENIOR FOOD-QOL
Partner: Federal Research Centre for Nutrition (FRCN) (Bundesforschungsanstalt fuer Ernaehrung (BFE)), Germany
Team:
Dr Cornelie Pfau (cornelie.pfau@bfe.uni-karlsruhe.de)
Dr Alexandra Heyer (alexandra.heyer@bfe.uni-karlsruhe.de)
Dr Carolin Krems (carolin.krems@bfe.uni-karlsruhe.de)
Birgit Schuhmacher (birgit.schuhmacher@bfe.uni-karlsruhe.de)
Address: Bundesforschungsanstalt fuer Ernaehrung Institut fur Ernaehrungsoekonomie und -soziologie Haid-und-Neu-Strasse 9, D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
Tel: +49 7216625556
Fax: +49 7216625552
Web: www.bfa-ernaehrung.de
The Federal Research Centre for Nutrition (FRCN), Karlsruhe, Germany is one of the research centres of the Federal Ministry of Consumer Protection, Nutrition and Agriculture (formerly - Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry).
The FRCN has five different institutes, one of them - the Institute of Nutritional Economics and Sociology (Institut fuer Ernaehrungsoekonomie und -soziologie - IOES) is the partner in this project. The primary task of the BFE is to advise the Ministry on matters of human nutrition and consumer policy. It carries out basic and applied research in various areas in food sciences, human nutrition and consumer research, which is needed as the basis for such advice.
The main research areas of the IOES are in the fields of determinants for human food behaviour, in development of menu planning systems and in information and education of consumers, especially to evaluate the effectiveness of consumer education programmes.
The IOES has a staff of five scientists with competence in the following areas: human nutrition, nutrition epidemiology, dietary behaviour, nutrition sociology, home economics.
Role in Project:
• Responsible for Workpackage 3
• Involvement in Workpackages 1,2,4,5,6,7 and 8
Team Profile:
Cornelie Pfau (FRCNF permanent staff) has conducted empirical polls by
written questionnaires concerning school feeding and nutritional
behaviour in private households, e.g. on consumers' competence in
handling food. Her main interest is focussed on the nutritional
behaviour of different consumer groups and the respective determinants.
Above all she has been working in the area of nutritional behaviour of
elderly people especially on meal planning and the assessment of meal
patterns in senior households. She is responsible for WP3 and will be
involved in all other workpackages of the SENIOR-FOOD project.
Alexandra Heyer and Carolin Krems studied home economics and nutritional sciences (Oecotrophologie). Carolin Krems was involved in the longitudinal study on an ageing population of Giessen, Germany (GISELA) in which the nutritional status and health status of elderly is observed. Her main research interest was the comparison of resting metabolic rate and body composition of young and elderly subjects.
Alexandra Heyer has been working in the field of social-scientific nutrition research and women's studies. Her main topics were qualitative and quantitative methods of social research as well as individual and socio-cultural determinants of nutritional behaviour in private households.
Both scientists are closely involved in Workpackage 3 and they are also involved in the Workpackages 2, 5, 6, 7 and 8.