The future of comennsality among older people
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Keywords:
Aged, Diet, Quality of Life, Feeding behavior, Digital mediaAbstract
Social eating or communal dining is an activity that transcends dietary and nutritional concerns throughout all stages of life, enabling older adults to strengthen social bonds, transmit food-related knowledge, and contribute to overall biopsychosocial well-being. In order to provide an analytical point of view on commensality and its future for older people, an overview of the subject is presented from a socio-health approach, beginning with a conceptualisation of the role and importance of commensality, reflecting on the reality of eating together today and looking in depth, among other aspects, at the influence that technologies and globalisation will have on the future of eating together. It is concluded that the future of eating together for the elderly is in line with other stages of the life course, and that this action can be visualised for clinical or community health care.
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