Tucson’s Home Instead Senior Care office is holding a recipe contest to encourage families to invite their senior relatives over for dinner, especially if those relatives live alone.

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What does an older adult who lives alone want most for dinner? The answer may surprise you.

According to new research, an overwhelming majority of seniors say that having someone to share their meals with makes those times more satisfying for them. The survey of seniors age 75 and older who live alone showed that:

· Seventy-six percent of these seniors eat alone most of the time.
· Two of five seniors who live alone have at least four warning signs of poor nutritional health.
· One in five seniors says he or she sometimes or most of the time feels lonely when eating alone.
· Seventy-eight percent of these seniors wished their families shared more meals together.

That’s why the Home Instead Senior Care office serving the greater Tucson area has launched a new program called Craving Companionship — which encourages families to dig into their recipe box, find that favorite dish and share it with their senior loved ones.

We also are asking families to enter that recipe in our Homemade Memories Recipe Contest which runs through September 15, 2011.

Enter the contest through the Homemade Memories Facebook page.

This article appears in Jul 21-27, 2011.

7 replies on “Local Recipe Contest: Share Memories, Meals With Older Relatives”

  4. Thanks for this post. I think that this is such an important issue and I am really impressed that this senior care facility is making an effort to encourage family interactions. Getting older can get lonely. I wonder if the facility would allow people to “adopt” a grandparent. That way, even if they don’t have someone there, more of the patients will have a chance to eat dinner with someone. Do you know if they allow that? ( http://elderoptionsseniorcare.com )

  5. That is wonderful they are getting more people involved. We really do need to take care of our seniors. I learned a lot about respecting them from rockland ma hospice.

  6. My aunt has been looking into home health care… She said that this company, Advanced Home Health Care (www.vidaseniorresource.com), seemed helpful. Are you very familiar with them at all?

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