Cultural perspectives of meals expressed by patients in geriatric care

The aim of this study was to investigate cultural values and ideas concerning table manners and food habits expressed by patients in geriatric care. The research approach was ethnographic. The findings exposed conflicts related to three themes. The first, “Mind your manners”, demonstrated problems i...

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Published inInternational journal of nursing studies Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 212 - 222
Main Authors Sidenvall, Birgitta, Fjellström, Christina, Ek, Anna-Christina
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.04.1996
Elsevier Science
Subjects
Activities of Daily Living
Aged
Anthropology, Cultural
Appetite
Biological and medical sciences
Cooperative Behavior
Feeding Behavior
Female
Food Habits
Geriatric Nursing
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Miscellaneous
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Social Behavior
Social Values
Sweden
Europe
Human
Nursing
Food habit
Cultural environment
Meal
Behavior
Hospital
Elderly
Public health
Geriatrics
Anthropology
Cultural
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Summary:The aim of this study was to investigate cultural values and ideas concerning table manners and food habits expressed by patients in geriatric care. The research approach was ethnographic. The findings exposed conflicts related to three themes. The first, “Mind your manners”, demonstrated problems in managing food and objects, keeping clean, and conduct at table. The second, “Appetite for food”, was connected to tradition and taste, healthy food and the need not to waste food. The third, “Be contented and do not complain”, illustrated the elderly patients' socialized manners in talking about meals and food.
ISSN:0020-7489
1873-491X
1873-491X
DOI:10.1016/0020-7489(95)00042-9