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- Kullberg, Kerstin, et al.
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Daily eating events among co-living and single-living diseased older men
- 2008
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In: The Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging. - 1279-7707 .- 1760-4788. ; 12:3, s. 176-182
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Objectives: To analyse, describe and compare the frequency and energy intake of eating events, including specific food items, among diseased older men living in ordinary housing. Design: Descriptive and explorative. Setting: Interviews were performed in the participants’ home. Participants: Thirty-five co-living and 26 single-living men, 64-88 years of age. Participants had one of three chronic diseases associated with difficulties in buying and preparing food and with difficulties related to the meal situation: Parkinson’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis or stroke. Measurements: A repeated 24-h recall was used to assess food intake and meal patterns. Results: Eating events were distributed over a 24-h period. Co-living men had a higher (p=0.001) number of eating events/day; both hot and cold eating events were consumed more frequently. There was no difference between groups concerning energy intake. Co-living men had more often hot eating events cooked from raw ingredients (p=0.001) and more various vegetables/roots (p=0.003) included in such eating events. Conclusion: Single-living men may constitute a vulnerable group from a nutritional perspective, while co-living men, besides the pleasure of eating together, seem to get support with food and eating events from their partners. Hence, the group of single-living men, particularly those with a disability, should receive particular attention with regard to possible food-related difficulties.
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- Kullberg, Kerstin, 1953-
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Food in older men with somatic diseases : Eating habits and approaches to food-related activities
- 2009
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Licentiate thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The overall aim was to improve the knowledge and understanding of eating habits of older men with somatic diseases, and the men's perceptions about managing food-related habits, such as grocery shopping and cooking. A total of 67 men between 64 and 89 years of age were visited in their homes on two occasions with 1-2 weeks in between. The participants were diagnosed with one of the three diseases Parkinson’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis, or stroke. A food survey, with repeated 24-h recall, was used to assess food intake and meal patterns. Interviews with 18 participants were conducted with open-ended questions. The interviews were further analysed with a thematic framework approach.The findings showed that eating events were distributed over a 24-h period.Further, co-living men had a significantly larger number of eating events over the day (p=0.001). No differences in daily energy intake were observed between co-living and single-living men. Co-living men’s hot eating events were compared with those of single-living men more often cooked from fresh ingredients (p=0.001), including a greater mix of vegetables/roots (p=0.003).Thematic analysis revealed three different approaches to food-related activities(FRA), namely ‘Cooking as a pleasure’, describing joy in cooking; ‘Cooking as a need’, indicating no habits or skills in cooking; and ‘Food is served’, that is, being served meals by a partner. The men's approaches to FRA were affected in particular by gender-related roles, but also by changed life circumstances, activity limitations, personal interests, and a wish to maintain continuity and independence. Further adaptive strategies were used among the men in attempts to maintain continuity and independence in FRA. In conclusion, single-living older men, especially those with activity limitations, were identified as being a vulnerable group from a nutritional perspective. Further, health care efforts in promoting FRA should preferably be individualised with respect to the older man’s approach to these activities.
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- Ljunggren Kullberg, Christina, 1973-
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Espace urbain et écriture des carrefours : Une étude de Chronique des sept misères, Solibo Magnifique et Texaco de Patrick Chamoiseau
- 2006
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This thesis deals with the role of urban space in Patrick Chamoiseau's first three novels. Observing that the colonial city is often stigmatized in French Caribbean literature and that Chamoiseau's style changes as his following novels are set elsewhere, the study has as its goal an assessment of the ways in which urban space determines his writing.Paradoxically Chamoiseau appropriates colonial discourses, namely ethnography and history. Focusing on the novels' ethnographic aspects, the first part examines the development of a writer-figure through whom meta-fictive problems are introduced and ways to approach the city are dramatized. The analyses show that Chamoiseau's writing negotiates between different entities in the texts and engender a polyphonic style, close to James Clifford's notion of surrealist ethnography. However the study also demonstrates that Chamoiseau plays with ethnography's documentary dimensions in order to situate his writing. The second part deals with the discourse of history. It investigates how the past is integrated in the narrative form of a chronicle, establishing a Creole identity and cultural heritage connected with urban space. Drawing from the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, this study shows that Chamoiseau's fictional city is constructed as a plane of composition where power and deterritorializing movements of marginalized characters operate simultaneously. Chamoiseau turns the city into a place where Creole heritage is not only inscribed in the past, but also constantly renewed.This study ultimately argues that the way Chamoiseau deals with urban space places his writing at the heart of certain esthetical reflections of Western modern literature. Since Chamoiseau's Fort-de-France is a space of transformation, the desire to situate the texts is not necessarily a sign of self-centered cultural nostalgia. Chamoiseau's urban novels question how inscription in and engagement with the local may resist forces of homogenization and add to the dynamics of the global.
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