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      Eating for Eye Health: Engaging patients with dry age-related macular degeneration in community cookery to support lifestyle change and positive health

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            There are limited treatment options available upon diagnosis of dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of blindness in older people, which progressively threatens central vision and quality of life. Community engagement has the potential to support 'positive health' of individuals with untreatable eye conditions. Eating for Eye Health is an award-winning public-engagement project that aims to raise awareness of research suggesting that nutrition might help protect against progression of AMD and to encourage patients to cook and eat antioxidant-rich food in a community environment. The project engaged patients who had a diagnosis of dry AMD through a focus group and a community cookery day organized in partnership with the healthy food outlet, Pod, and the Manor Gardens Community Kitchen Project, Islington, London. A focus group highlighted participants' potential barriers to engagement with research about lifestyle modification and identified that a co-designed community cookery project could help to address unmet needs for support. Individuals with dry AMD reported increased levels of confidence in cooking skills after participating in the community cookery day. The combination of these methods within the context of AMD highlights how a focus on patient needs and expectations can establish and grow mutually beneficial relationships. There is potential for Eating for Eye Health, or similar community kitchen approaches, to be implemented within the community setting through NHS 'social prescribing' initiatives. In conclusion, Eating for Eye Health is unique in its combination of elements of community consultative and collaborative forms of engagement. These methods could be adopted as part of Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) in local health policy development in the community.

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            72010652
            Research for All
            UCL IOE Press
            2399-8121
            12 September 2019
            : 3
            : 2
            : 129-141
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            2399-8121(20190912)3:2L.129;1- s2.phd /ioep/rfa/2019/00000003/00000002/art00002
            10.18546/RFA.03.2.02
            93d4d0a3-0721-48a0-b453-27bb13e8443e
            Copyright @ 2019
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            Assessment, Evaluation & Research methods,Education & Public policy,Educational research & Statistics
            COMMUNITY KITCHENS,NUTRITION,SOCIAL PRESCRIBING,HEALTH AND WELL-BEING,DRY AMD,COLLABORATION,CONSULTATION

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