Rachel P Zimmer, Justin B Moore, Mia Yang, Joni Evans, Scott Best, Sheena McNeill, David Harrison, Heather Martin, Kimberly Montez
Food insecurity (FI) is a growing health problem, worsening during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fresh food prescription programs (FFRx) have been shown to increase healthy eating and decrease FI, but few FFRx are community-informed, or theory based. Our FFRx was a delivery program developed to alleviate FI for older adults. It was implemented in an academic medical center and guided by the Capabilities, Opportunities, Motivations, and Behaviors and Theoretical Domains Framework. We tested impacts of the program on FI, Fruit and Vegetable (FV) intake, depression, and loneliness at six-month intervals...
June 11, 2022: Journal of Nutrition in Gerontology and Geriatrics