Many senior citizens are surviving on minimal Social Security benefits and as a result, struggle with food security. Metrocrest Services in Farmers Branch, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, is a non-profit organization that provides several food programs to residents of the community including some programs that are specifically tailored to the needs of senior citizens. This project was to provide Metrocrest with an assessment of the food security of their senior clientele as well as other elderly residents of the Metrocrest service area and to evaluate the current senior focused programs. The project utilized qualitative research including both Metrocrest clients and residents who were not Metrocrest clients bot whose demographics were similar. The objectives were to determine the coping skills used by senior citizens in obtaining food, to assess seniors' awareness of the programs offered by Metrocrest, to discover barriers to accessing needed resources and to make recommendations of how programs could be improved or modified if needed. Through my research, I was able to present Metrocrest with a number of recommendations to improve their existing programs. I was also able to recommend some potential new programs that could be designed in conjunction with local senior centers to better serve the community.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc1157515 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Paschal, Carla |
| Contributors | Henry, Lisa, Henry, Doug, Preister, Kevin |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | vii, 98 pages, Text |
| Coverage | United States - Texas - Dallas County - Carrollton, United States - Texas - Dallas County - Farmers Branch |
| Rights | Public, Paschal, Carla, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved. |
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