Training opportunities; food prices; food and nostalgia; REHIS Elementary food and health course; older people eating well; Healthy Start; fare futures; class act.
Topic: older people
Fare Choice Issue 57
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: affordability, community cafes, early years, food training, funding, grants, obesity and overweight, older people
Food services for older people
This study was commissioned by Consumer Focus Scotland/CFHS to provide baseline information about the range and extent of food services for older people living in the community in Scotland. The research explored consumers’ views on these services and sought to address gaps in provision.
Publisher: ODS Consulting
Publication categories: Policy and planning, Retailing and catering
Related topics: access, delivery, lunch clubs, older people, research, surveys
Fare Choice Issue 56
healthyliving award; small grants scheme; food and health activity with older people; volunteering and community food and health initiatives
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: grants, older people, volunteers
A bite and a blether
Brings together material from six lunch clubs in different parts of the country most of which are run by older people for older people.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Retailing and catering
Related topics: food preparation, lunch clubs, older people, volunteers
Fare Choice Issue 54
Tomorrow’s Menu; Turning Point Scotland; Celebrating outcomes; healthyliving award; Beyond Smoothies
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: evaluation, homelessness, learning disabilities, mental health, older people, policy, substance misuse, young people
Fare Choice Issue 49
Recipe for Success: Going Forth conference; Food Practices in an Institutional Context – Children, Care and Control; Edinburgh Cyrenians; Confidence to Cook; Weaning Toolkit; Third Sector Enterprise Fund
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: children, food co-op, food training, funding, hospitals, older people, policy, Recipe for Success, weaning
Evaluation of the Food Train in terms of its economic value
This report, commissioned by CFHS from Rock Solid Social Research, is based on an evaluation of the Food Train in terms of its economic value.
Publisher: Rock Solid Social Research
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: economic, evaluation, evidence, older people, research, social enterprise
Focus on food services for older people
On 25 February Community Food and Health (Scotland) and Consumer Focus Scotland co-hosted a roundtable discussion looking at issues around older people’s access to affordable healthy food of their choice.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: access, affordability, choice, discussion, food poverty, low income, older people
Micro funding for work around older people, health and wellbeing
A report on the work undertaken by micro funding recipients and findings from a learning event.