Testing a Prioritization Tool to Identify Older Adults in Need of Home-Delivered Meals and Nutrition-Related Services
Izabelle Mendez,
Anna M. Vaudin,
Judy R. Simon
et al.
Abstract:The Expanded Food Security Screener (FSS-Exp) determines food insecurity risk based on physical, economic, and social access to food. It categorizes individuals into 5 priorities based on need for a home-delivered meal. Concurrent and construct validity were applied to the tool. For concurrent validity, partial correlations between FSS-Exp and health- and food-related measures were significant and ranged between 0.20 and 0.33. For construct validity, analysis of variance was used to examine scores of the healt… Show more
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