Korean J Community Nutr.  2000 Mar;5(1):74-82.

Satisfaction of the Elderly toward Free Congregate Meal Service

Affiliations
  • 1Department of Food Science, Suwon Women's college, Suwon, Korea.
  • 2Department of Food & Nutrition, Kyungwon University, Sungnam, Korea.
  • 3Department of Food and Cookery, Osan College, Osan, Korea.
  • 4Department of Food and Nutrition, Sinheung, College, Euijungbu, Korea.

Abstract

This study was designed to determine the attitude and degree of satisfaction of recipients toward the meal service program for elderly people. Nine hundred and eight elderly people(male: 301, female: 607) were interviewed by trained personnel. The results were as follows. Forty two percent of them had no income and 43.8% of the respondents were supported economically by the government. Their main reasons for attending the free congregated meal program was economic hardship(37.9%) The channels of becoming aware of the free meal program were through their friends(33.4%) and the meal service centers were located in the respondents residence area(36.0%) Thus any other advertisement from local government of official channels about the free meal program were not effective for the elderly 26.9% of the respondents felt inconvenience in visiting the meal service centers because they had some difficulty in walking, 53.5% of them however answered that they didn t have any complains and were quite satisfied with the meal service. The average satisfaction score for the free meal service was 63.4(maximum score 75) As for each evaluation item respondents were highly satisfied with volunteers attitude in meal serving(4.58+/-0.65: maximum 5 point) The evaluation score of females was generally lower than that of males(p<0.05) Oncemore, respondents who were in lowere socio-economic classes were marked by having significantly lower satisfaction scores for the meal service compared with higher scocio-economic classes. For the welfare of elderly people, meal service programs should be extended to more elderly persons and developed considering the elderlys ecological factors.

Keyword

elderly; free congregate meal service; welfare

MeSH Terms

Aged*
Surveys and Questionnaires
Female
Humans
Local Government
Meals*
Volunteers
Walking
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