Abstract

Mealtimes in residential care homes are fundamentally social occasions, providing temporal structure to the day and opportunities for conversation and companionship. Food and drink are imbued with social meanings and used to express and create relationships between people. There is a dearth of research exploring care home residents’ mealtime experiences in the United Kingdom. This paper reports on particular findings from a qualitative study which investigated factors influencing nutritional care provided to residents in two different types of residential care settings in South Wales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2013

SUSAN PHILPIN , JOY MERRELL , JOANNE WARRING , DEBRA HOBBY  and VIC GREGORY

Ageing & Society | Cambridge Core | Source: Memories, identity and homeliness: the social construction of mealtimes in residential care homes in South Wales | Ageing & Society | Cambridge Core