This report, produced from research commissioned by CFHS and undertaken by Community First Moray) provides a detailed picture of issues of concern for older people in terms of shopping, food preparation, and using food services.
Topic: surveys
Food, Health and Homeless Initiative: Mapping Current Services
In September 2006, the Food, Health and Homelessness Initiative at CFHS commissioned Blake Stevenson to undertake a baseline study to map the nature, scope/scale and location of food, health and homeless projects, programmes and initiatives in Scotland. Includes Edinburgh Cyrenians and the Salvation Army.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: homelessness, inclusion, independent living skills, inequalities, mapping exercise, research, soup kitchen, surveys
Area of Work: Research and evaluation
Fare Choice Issue 26
Midlothian shopping basket survey; Hungry for Success Roadshow; SCOFF nutrition research; Question Time; Redhall Walled Garden
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: affordability, children, community gardens, cooking, Food Standards Agency, growing and gardening, milk, parliaments, Renfrewshire, smoking, surveys, welfare
Fare Choice Issue 4
Food Standards Agency White Paper; Bearing Fruit training; Rural Development seminar; Scottish Healthy Choices Award; nutrition research news; Information Exchange
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: consultation, cooking, environment, Finland, Food Standards Agency, Lothians, shopping, soft fruit and berries, surveys, training and qualifications, vegetables
Fare Choice Issue 3
SCDP small grants scheme; acronyms; co-operative retail societies; setting up a Food Standards Agency; nutrition research news; Information Exchange; Foodlinks Conference; Scottish Federation of Community Food Initiatives; Scottish Health Survey
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: co-operative, diet and nutrition, funding, inequalities, milk, rural, shops, surveys
Food Mapping for Community Food Activity
Notes from a roundtable discussion on research carried out to find out where people can buy and eat food and what the food needs of local people are.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: access, affordability, food culture, food poverty, local, mapping exercise, surveys
Food Matters Issue 3
Edition 3 of our regular e-bulletin update on developments in food, health and homelessness in Scotland.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: conference, discussion, homelessness, mapping exercise, surveys, training and qualifications
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.