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Special Report - Special Report - February 28, 2013
GU study: Meal choices benefit seniors
System tested here lets nursing-home residents select food; healthy weight gain seen

By Treva Lind
Of the Journal of Business

Neva Crogan, geriatric nurse and Gonzaga University professor, says seniors tended to get more protein in their diets when they had more say in what was served.
Neva Crogan, geriatric nurse and Gonzaga University professor, says seniors tended to get more protein in their diets when they had more say in what was served.
—Staff photo by Treva Lind
Senior residents of a nursing home who could rate meals and choose menu items showed healthy weight gain and other benefits under a food delivery system Gonzaga University researcher Neva Crogan has developed.

The elderly residents participating in the six-month study conducted last year at Providence St. Joseph Care Center, at 17 E. Eighth, actually didn't eat a greater quantity of food. Rather, the quality of food they ate improved when they chose the entrees, versus when they d...


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