Developed “Health Food Model” in Collaboration with University Students:

Activities to Raise Awareness of Frailty Syndrome

Abstract

Objective: We investigated awareness and feasibility of the food for the prevention of Frailty syndrome when the subjects ate the Ningen Dock lunch developed by us and nursing school students.

Methods: Of the 1,422 people who ate our Ningen Dock lunch for a one-month period from March in 2021, 1,242 people valid, and the response rate was 87.3%. We provided a diet containing 10 different food groups for the prevention of Frailty syndrome. In order to convey the inventor’s thoughts on the prevention and improvement of eating habits, we distributed a “menu” with pictures of students and conducted a questionnaire survey on Frailty syndrome. We investigated awareness and feasibility and compared them between the ages under 60 and over 60 by gender.

Results: The apparent awareness rate of Frailty Syndrome was approximately 15% regardless of gender or age. For the prevention of Frailty Syndrome, the feasibility rate of “have three meals a day” and “chew well when eating” was approximately 80%. It of “10 types of preventive foods” was only 27.4%.

Conclusions: Frail’s awareness is low, and education is important for men and women of all ages. Since it is difficult to practice “10 types of preventive foods”, the challenge is to build health guidance that can be concretely imagined to be incorporated into daily life.