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Migration, Nutrition and Ageing across the Lifecourse in Bangladeshi Families: Project MINA

UK Bangladeshis experience substantially poorer health than the general population. The impact of migration on food-related behaviors, aging, health, functional status, inter-generational and transnational social networks and exchange of foods and nutrition information is not well understood in Bangladeshi women. This presentation will include results from a mixed methods study of Migration, Nutrition and Ageing across the Lifecourse in Bangladeshi Families (MINA). Participants included 37 Bangladeshi women (aged 45+) who migrated to the UK, 37 of their adult daughters (aged 18-35) and 22 mother-daughter pairs of similar age living in Bangladesh. UK mothers and daughters were more obese and less likely to follow the cooking practices of their mothers than women in Bangladesh. UK mothers had lower physical function than Bangladesh mothers. All groups consumed below current recommendations for fruit and vegetables. Social support differed transnationally and between generations and frequent transnational exchange of nutrition information and foods was identified.

Migration, Nutrition, Ageing, Bangladesh, United Kingdom

Sažetak rada predstavljenog na skupu: The 64th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. 18-22 November 2011. Boston, Massachusetts, USA: Gerontological Society of America (GSA).