Vyresnio amžiaus žmonių mitybos nuostatos ir praktikos – prielaida stratifikacijai pagal amžių?
Older people’s nutritional attitudes and practices – A premise of age stratification?

Summary/Abstract: Often we are opposing older people to younger ones; we are talking about a generational gap, even a generational conflict. Age distinctions are constructed by different behaviour and attitudes. In the paper, nutritional habits (attitudes and practices) are regarded as one of potential means to categorize older generation. The paper has a dual goal: 1) to examine what are nutritional attitudes and practices of older people compared to younger ones; What (if) divides more younger and older generations- different nutritional attitudes or different practices? 2) to disclose whether the differences between older and younger people’s nutrition attitudes and practices make assumptions for their stratification by age? The research methods applied are the analysis of scholarly literature and of empirical data collected by the market research company TNS LT in a representative quantitative survey (N = 1,874, the age of respondents 15–74 years) carried out in 2012. The analysis of the nutrition habits of Lithuanian population by age showed that one third of the nutrition habits (6 out of 15 statements) unite older and younger people into one single group, since no statistically significant differences between these groups were found. The remaining two thirds of the studied nutrition habits (9 out of 15 statements) showed statistically significant differences between younger and older population’s nutrition attitudes and practices.

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