HOW A NEW PROJECT IS WORKING HARD TO ENSURE THAT THE SPECIAL DIETARY NEEDS OF THAILAND'S GREYING POPULATION ARE ADEQUATELY MET
IN THAILAND, as in many other places in the world, people are living longer than ever and public and private bodies have been forced to rise to the challenge of caring for this greying population. Focus, though, is almost always on social and economic issues, health care and improvements to the home suited to those of advanced years yet no one apparently has given any thought to an essential seniors cannot live without - food.
While many older people can and do go on eating the rice-based dishes with which they have grown up, others have difficulties masticating or swallowing. Even those in perfect health will find their sensory taste buds changing as the years go on.
Perhaps because these changes seem as natural as developing grey hair, we don't recognise them as a problem and thus fail to make provision for them. And so while other countries with ageing populations like Japan have developed a variety of products for seniors that are easily available in shops and supermarkets, Thailand is only now starting to give this issue the attention it deserves.
The project to develop healthy food products for old people - Smart Food - was launched earlier this year by the National Science and Technology Development Agency's Innovation and Technology Assistant Programme (ITAP). It brings together scientists, researchers from universities as well as members of the private sector who are interested in food-for-seniors products to work on alimentation essential to the ageing population.
HOW A NEW PROJECT IS WORKING HARD TO ENSURE THAT THE SPECIAL DIETARY NEEDS OF THAILAND'S GREYING POPULATION ARE ADEQUATELY METIN THAILAND, as in many other places in the world, people are living longer than ever and public and private bodies have been forced to rise to the challenge of caring for this greying population. Focus, though, is almost always on social and economic issues, health care and improvements to the home suited to those of advanced years yet no one apparently has given any thought to an essential seniors cannot live without - food.While many older people can and do go on eating the rice-based dishes with which they have grown up, others have difficulties masticating or swallowing. Even those in perfect health will find their sensory taste buds changing as the years go on.Perhaps because these changes seem as natural as developing grey hair, we don't recognise them as a problem and thus fail to make provision for them. And so while other countries with ageing populations like Japan have developed a variety of products for seniors that are easily available in shops and supermarkets, Thailand is only now starting to give this issue the attention it deserves.The project to develop healthy food products for old people - Smart Food - was launched earlier this year by the National Science and Technology Development Agency's Innovation and Technology Assistant Programme (ITAP). It brings together scientists, researchers from universities as well as members of the private sector who are interested in food-for-seniors products to work on alimentation essential to the ageing population.
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