Navigating Food Insecurity as a Rural Older Adult: The Importance of Congregate Meal Sites, Social Networks and Transportation Services

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Explores food insecurity as experienced by older adults in rural Indiana. Provides maps showing places to access food in southern Indiana as well as demographic information of interviewees compared to national averages, such as income, race and ethnicity, presence of disability, and more. Discusses issues such as transportation, living alone, and closure of congregate meal sites.

Julia C.D. Valliant, Mecca E. Burris, Kamila Czebotar, et al.

Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition, 17(5), 593-614

10/2021

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Elderly population · Food security and nutrition · Statistics and data · Indiana