• RUPALEE TOMAR
• Dr.Pankaj Chhabra

Imparting Nutrition Knowledge and Dietary Counselling Among Old Age People to Assess the Level of Adoption and Improvement in their Dietary Practices Rupalee Tomar* and Dr. Pankaj Chhabra** *Research Scholar and **Thesis supervisor( Professor), Department of Home Science, M.L. & JNK College, Saharanpur, CCS University Meerut (2018), Rupali.tomar15@gmail.com, mob. no. 81260 04668 Abstract Nutrition is a prime necessity to maintaining normal health in all age group of life cycle. Therefore various health and nutritional intervention are required to prepare for the elderly to face these physical alterations. The present attempt has been formulate a 7 days nutrition intervention programme and implemented on 123 old age (from low income group) respondents from 600 huge. A pre-post experimental research deign was adopted to assess the impact of implemented intervention on their daily dietary practices. The results showed that pre-test mean scores on required and selected aspects of nutritional care during old age (aspect no.1- A, 2- B, 3- C,4- D and 5- E) had gained by the respondents, out of 10 maximum scores, as: 5.36 ; 4.75; 3.43 ; 5.25 and 3.53 respectively. That scores were increases significantly, after intervention as: 8.43; 7.67; 7.28, 8.56 and 7.63 for the selected aspects on post- test as A1, A2, A3, A4 and A5 respectively. The t- test revealed that significant differences were found between the scores of pre- test and post – test, which indicates a good impact of nutrition intervention. The reveals of the present attempt has inferences that low income group is a factor but the ignorance about management of balanced and preventive diet, unhygienic house hold’s environment and practices are more prominent factors leads malnutrition and other diseases. That requires a precise nutrition and health intervention to imparting awareness for improvement in quality of life and living of elderly.

Key words: Intervention, imparting knowledge, elderly, unhygienic, physical alteration, degradation.

"Imparting Nutrition Knowledge and Dietary Counselling Among Old Age People to Assess the Level of Adoption and Improvement in their Dietary Practices", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 7, page no.e176-e182, July-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2207423.pdf

"Imparting Nutrition Knowledge and Dietary Counselling Among Old Age People to Assess the Level of Adoption and Improvement in their Dietary Practices", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 7, page no. ppe176-e182, July-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2207423.pdf