Food Glorious Food: Investigating the benefits and challenges of offering food in community-based support groups for people living with dementia.

This webinar introduces the NIHR-funded Food Glorious Food project, offering early insights from its realist evaluation. People living with dementia face a heightened risk of malnutrition and dehydration. However, food plays a far more significant role than nutrition alone – it can influence psychosocial wellbeing, foster a sense of citizenship, and support personal and cultural identity. Positive experiences in these areas are vital to living well with dementia.  

The Food Glorious Food project investigates how food-related practices within community-based group support impact people from diverse backgrounds and circumstances. It is a collaboration between the Association for Dementia Studies (University of Worcester), Cardiff University, University of Oxford, and the University of Wolverhampton. The project is employing flexible qualitative methods to generate data from ethnically diverse community support groups. The goal is to identify what works, for whom, in what circumstances.

This event is being run by ExChange Wales - please contact them directly with any enquiries.