A co-produced sustainable food-based intervention to improve nutritional health and ageing in older ethnic minority groups living in the UK

越来越多的英国人寿命更长，但这并不意味着他们身体健康的时间更长。来自少数民族社区的人寿命也更长。然而，缺乏相关的保健和社会护理政策，以帮助增加保持良好健康的时间，并减少对保健和护理支助的需求。随着年龄的增长，吃健康均衡的饮食和保持充足的水分是改善我们健康的重要因素。人体执行许多功能的能力在50岁左右开始迅速恶化，如果我们不遵循健康的生活方式，恶化的速度会更快。我们知道，不良的饮食习惯是一个更有可能导致这种情况的因素，并增加了在以后的生活中患上影响健康和生活质量的长期疾病的风险。这些问题包括2型糖尿病、高血压和心脏问题，以及某些少数民族群体，包括英国南亚人、非洲黑人和加勒比人。人们饮食不良的原因还有很多，这可能是因为教育程度低、收入低、由于目前的生活成本危机而难以获得食物、传统食物的可用性、媒体的影响、语言障碍。因此，我们需要更多地了解影响人们是否吃得好，并开发新的方法来帮助人们吃得更健康的因素。在这个项目中，我们将开始通过对收集的英国人口（包括英国南亚人、非洲黑人和加勒比群体）的大型数据集进行分析来理解这一点。我们将与来自英国南亚、非洲黑人和加勒比社区的老年人一起工作。在社区团体作为我们项目合作伙伴的支持下，我们也会花时间与他们社区的人们交谈，并请他们拍照。利用收集到的数据，我们将与他们共同努力，制作一个具有文化针对性、适应性强的新工具包，其中包括基于食物的建议、指导和资源，帮助社区中的老年人做出更好的食物选择，并食用更健康的饮食。在整个项目过程中，我们将与这些社区的老年人组成一个小组，帮助指导项目的实施和成果的分享。与社区团体作为我们的项目合作伙伴合作，我们将确定与公众分享发现的最佳方式，例如通过我们的区域和国家网络，通过网站，短片（YouTube），新闻通讯，博客和社交媒体帖子，网络研讨会，社区新闻通讯中的摘要，并与我们的项目合作伙伴合作提供摄影展。我们将共同制作一份政策简报，总结主要发现和政策建议，并与主要组织和政策制定者广泛分享。

More people in the UK are living longer but that does not mean that they have more years in good health. There are also many more people living longer from ethnic communities. However, there is a lack of relevant health and social care policies to help increase the time spent in good health and to reduce the need for health and care support.Eating a healthy well-balanced diet and staying well hydrated is an important factor to improve our health as we age. The body's ability to perform many of its functions can start to worsen more rapidly around the age of 50, and even more quickly if we do not follow a healthy lifestyle. We know that poor diet is one factor that is more likely to cause this and increase the risk of developing long term conditions in later life which impact health and quality of life. These condition problems include developing type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and heart problems and in certain ethnic minority groups including UK South Asian, Black Africans and Caribbeans.There are lots of other reasons why people might have a poor diet which could be because of poor education, low income and difficulty accessing food because of the current cost of living crisis, availability of traditional foods, media influences, language barriers. Therefore, we need to understand more about the factors that influence whether someone is eating well and develop new ways to help people to eat healthier. In this project we will start to understand this by undertaking an analysis of large datasets collected on the UK population including UK South Asian, Black Africans and Caribbean groups. We will work together with older people from UK South Asian, Black African and Caribbean communities. With the support of the community groups as our project partners, we will also spend time talking with people in their communities and ask them to take photographs. Using the data collected, we will work together with them to produce a new culturally tailored, adaptable toolkit with food-based recommendations, guidance and resources for older people in their communities to make better food choices, and eat a healthier diet. We will involve and engage with older people from these communities throughout this project by forming a group who will help guide the delivery of the project and sharing of the findings.Working with community groups as our project partners, we will determine the best way to share the findings with the public, such as through our regional and national networks and through a website, a short film (YouTube), newsletters, blogs and social media posts, webinars, summaries in community newsletters and work with our project partners to provide a photographic exhibition. We will co-produce a policy brief summarising key findings and policy recommendations which will be shared widely with key organisations and policymakers.