Research Project: Healthy Food's Impact on Auburn Mere Residences

This research project investigates the impact of healthy food on the lives of residents at Auburn Mere, a residential care home. The study aims to evaluate the effects of healthy food, determine the importance of residential care in improving the quality of life, examine challenges in integrating healthy eating habits, and provide strategic recommendations. The research includes a literature review exploring the benefits of nutritious diets and the role of residential care, alongside an examination of the challenges faced by care homes in promoting healthy eating. The methodology includes qualitative research, an inductive approach, and a descriptive research design, with data collection through primary and secondary research methods. The project utilizes random sampling of care givers and thematic analysis for data analysis, culminating in recommendations for enhancing the impact of healthy food on residents' well-being. The report also provides a Gantt chart for project management.

Research Project

Table of Contents
TOPIC: “To examine how healthy food affect the life of residence. A study on Auburn Mere.”. .3
TASK 1: RESEARCH PROPOSAL................................................................................................3
Background:.................................................................................................................................3
AIM:.............................................................................................................................................3
Literature review..........................................................................................................................4
Research methodology.................................................................................................................4
Appropriate plan and procedure...................................................................................................6
TASK 2: INTRODUCTION AND LITERATURE REVIEW........................................................8
TASK 3: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY...................................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
RECOMMENDATIONS...............................................................................................................14
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

TOPIC: “To examine how healthy food affect the life of residence. A study on Auburn Mere.”
TASK 1: RESEARCH PROPOSAL
Background:
Nutritious and heathy food helps residential to improve the quality of life for higher
standard living. It helps in effectively improving the overall health of an individual for future
sustainable growth and efficiency. Healthy and nutritious diet results in better care services and
support to the adults in the residential care home. Auburn Mere is a residential care home which
focuses on promoting high standard care to the individual. It focuses on providing effective care
and support for better quality of life. This study will help in critically examining the affect of
healthy food on the life of residence individual.
AIM:
“To examine how healthy food affect the life of individual in residential care. A study on
Auburn Mere.”
Research Objectives
 To evaluate the impact of healthy food on the individual.
 To determine the importance of residential care in improving the quality of life of adults.
 To examine the challenges faced by residential care to integrate healthy food habits
among adults.
 To provide strategic recommendations to improve affect of healthy food on the life of
residence.
Research Questions
 What is the impact of healthy food on the individual?
 What is the importance of residential care in improving the quality of life of adults?
 What are the challenges faced by residential care to integrate healthy food habits among
adults?
 What is the strategic recommendations to improve affect of healthy food on the life of
residence?
Rationale: The main purpose of carrying out this study is because this is the current issue and it
helps in gaining wider prospect on the particular subject matter. Residential care is the long term
care given to adults for better quality of life. This study is carried for personal and academic
interest in order to gain newer insight on the particular subject matter. This study will help

researcher in examining the affect of healthy food on the residence's life. This study is very
beneficial in determining the challenges faced by residential care to integrate healthy food habits
among adults with strategic recommendation.
Literature review
Literature review is very useful in filling gaps on the particular subject matter. It is useful
in critically examining and evaluating the viewpoints of various authors on the particular area of
study. It is very useful in reflecting various judgement and decision which is made by authors in
respect of bringing new aspects in research.
McGill and et.al., (2015) sought to analyse the fact that, healthy food means eating right
proportion, nutrition and quantity of food. It helps in maintaining the healthy lifestyle and
reduces various health risk. It is very crucial to understand the health conditions and functioning
of the individual in order to provide effective care services and healthy diet plan to the adults.
This helps in controlling the weights related issue by continuous physical exercise. Healthy diet
results in better nutrition to the body which in turn improves the overall mental as well as
physical health of an individual. This in turn reduces the impact of various illness such as heart
strokes, chronic disease, cancer, dementia, etc. Consumption of high nutrition, low calorie food
results in better health results and outcomes. Healthy diet plan helps in controlling the blood
pressure and cholesterol in the body. Blue and et.al., (2016) argued that, healthy food results in
smooth blood flow in the body and decreasing the risk of various health problems and
cardiovascular disease in the body. A healthy diet is the one which is rich in vegetable, fruits,
low fat dairy and whole grains in order to reduce the risk of heart disease. It helps in avoiding
packaged and process for better quality of life. Fresh and healthy food is a good source of
vitamins and fibres which in turn results in turn results in high operational growth and efficiency.
Importance of residential care in improving the quality of life of adults
As per the views of author Brown and et.al., (2019) residential care play an important
role in improving the life of adults. Residential care provide the rooms, food and beverage
facilities to the person who stay in residential houses rather than to their own house and with
their families. The adult are live in residential house for various purpose such as study, job etc.
There life and living habit is depended on the services provided by residential care. Residential
care provide the best food and beverages with the proper hygiene and nutrition which improves
the health of adults and children's. At the same time residential care also take all the safety and

security measure while preparing the food and providing facility such as rooms, air conditioning,
lightning etc. Residential care provide the proper food, shelter and play ground to the adults, so
the overall development can be done without any problems.
Jack, (2016) argued that if the residential care does provide the efficient services to the
adults than it affect their overall development. As well as it also increases the safety issues and
affect the mental health of adults. The role of residential care is to provide the healthy food and
services with the proper care to adults if they are fail to provide that services than it affect the
health of the adults and spread disease, infection in the environment. Further, author explains
that residential care has to take proper care regarding the health and safety aspect to improve
their performance and health of the adults.
Challenges faced by residential care to integrate healthy food habits among adults
According to the Van Breda and Dickens, (2016) residential care has to face various
problems while integrate the habits of healthy food among the adults because due to the fast food
culture and busy schedule life adults prefer to eat the ready-made food or fast food which affect
their health so the residential care has to develop the habit of healthy food among the adults.
They have to face various challenges such as fluctuation of mood, different taste and preferences,
time schedule, health issues, allergic to the certain ingredients etc. As per the author they also
have to face various challenges in managing the adults' health because in residential care
different people love together with the different taste and preferences & with different health
issues. So the residential care has to take care of each adult to maintain their health and provide
healthy food according to their interest and health which create problems to managing the
residential care.
Ailabouni and et.al., (2016) argued that rather than to the taste and preferences of adults,
residential care also has to face many problems or challenges while developing the habit of
healthy food in adults. To develop the habit of healthy food residential care has to fix or schedule
the diet of each individual and implement according to their schedule but each individual has
different time schedule so to develop the habit of healthy food among the adults they have to
face challenges. Author also explains that residential care also has to problem to tight the diet of
the adults because the mood of adults is fluctuated according to the different environment and
group so to maintain their diet and develop the habit of healthy food they have to explain the
advantages of healthy diet to the adults.

Research methodology
Research methodology is a strategic approach as it helps in critically evaluating the
reliability and validity of the data in a systematic and efficient manner. It helps in filling the gaps
and broadening the knowledge on the particular area of study.
Research methods: This approach is useful in gathering data from relevant sources in
order to meet the goals and objectives of the particular research study (Taylor, Bogdan and De
Vault, 2015). It is classified into quantitative and qualitative research methods. The researcher of
this study will opt for qualitative method by gaining in- depth understanding and examining the
affect of healthy food on the life of residence individual.
Research philosophy: It is a phenomenon which helps in gathering and analysing
relevant information. It can be distinguished into positivism and interpretivism approach. The
researcher of this study will opt for interpretivism approach by effectively integrating human
interest and interpreting the various elements on the particular subject matter.
Research approach: It is referred to as systematic plan or procedure to carry out the
study with the help of broad assumptions. It can be distinguished into deductive and inductive
approach (Caillaud, Rose and Goepp, 2016). The researcher of this study will opt for inductive
approach. This method is useful in analysing the qualitative data with the help of specific test,
pattern and theory. This helps researcher in evaluating the impact of healthy food on the
individual.
Research design: It is an effective framework as it helps in combining various
components of the research in a logical and systematic manner. This method is useful in
resolving the research problems for attainment of aims and objectives (Antwi and Hamza, 2015).
It is classified into exploratory and descriptive research method. The researcher of this study will
opt for descriptive research design approach to gain in- depth knowledge related with the
importance of residential care in improving the quality of life of adults.
Data collection: This tool is very useful in collecting and measuring information in order
to answer relevant questions. It is useful in collection of relevant and reliable data for better
results and outcomes. It can be distinguished into primary and secondary research methods. The
researcher of this study will opt for both primary and secondary research method. Primary data is
the new information which is collected for the first time (Fox and Alldred, 2015). On the
contrary, secondary source of data is the information which has already been collected before

and can be further used for future investigation to examine the affect of healthy food on the life
of individual in residential care.
Sampling: This method is useful in selecting the samples from the large number of
population. It can be distinguished into stratified, multistage, cluster and random sampling. The
researcher of this study will opt for random sampling method where every individual has equal
chance or probability of getting selected (Ahmed, Opoku and Aziz, eds., 2016). The researcher
will choose 20 care givers of Auburn Mere to examine the affect of healthy food on the life of
individual in residential care.
Data analysis: This is an effective method which helps in evaluating data in order to gain
useful and reliable information. The researcher of this study will opt for qualitative approach
where thematic analysis will be used to gain in- depth knowledge on the challenges faced by
residential care to integrate healthy food habits among adults with strategic recommendation.
Appropriate plan and procedure.
Gantt Chart
Task Mode Task Name Duration Start Finish Predecessors
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Scheduled Project initiation 5 days Mon 02-09-19 Fri 06-09-19
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Scheduled Formulation of Topic 2 days Mon 02-09-19 Tue 03-09-19
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Formulation of aim and
objectives 3 days Wed 04-09-19 Fri 06-09-19 2
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Scheduled Project planning 17 days Mon 09-09-19 Tue 01-10-19
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Scheduled Research proposal 3 days Mon 09-09-19 Wed 11-09-19 2,3
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Introduction and literature
review 5 days Thu 12-09-19 Wed 18-09-19 5,3
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Scheduled Research methodology 4 days Thu 12-09-19 Tue 17-09-19 5
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Scheduled Data collection 9 days Thu 19-09-19 Tue 01-10-19 6
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Scheduled Project execution 27 days Thu 19-09-19 Fri 25-10-19
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Preparation of
questionnaire 4 days Thu 19-09-19 Tue 24-09-19 6,7
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Scheduled Data analysis 11 days Wed 02-10-19 Wed 16-10-19 8
Auto Data interpretation 7 days Thu 17-10-19 Fri 25-10-19 11

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Scheduled Project closure 2 days Mon 28-10-19 Tue 29-10-19
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Scheduled conclusion 2 days Mon 28-10-19 Tue 29-10-19 11,12
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Scheduled recommendation 2 days Mon 28-10-19 Tue 29-10-19 12
Critical path

TASK 2: INTRODUCTION AND LITERATURE REVIEW
Literature reviews carries the overall summary of the research and also through this
procedure various judgement is to be authorised which is gathered from various authors. Thus, it
is the scholar paper which concludes the overall findings from the research topic which is
collected by undertaking reviews, thoughts and decision of various authors. It also result in
gathering information from secondary sources such as articles, magazines, books and other
relevant area from where information is to be determined (Swinburn and et.al., 2015). The main
aspects of choosing the literature reviews is that it not includes original information, as data
which is relevant to the selected topic is to be gathered from secondary sources. In this research,
the topic as healthy food affect the life of individual in residential care reflects various
judgement and decision which is made by authors in respect of bringing new aspects in research.
Theme 1: Impact of healthy food on individual
McGill and et.al., (2015) Suggested that the positive impact of choosing the healthy foods
is resulting in controlling the weights related issue and also make the person energetic by having
the continuous physical exercises. As the major problems arises due to not preferring the healthy
products. In that case heathy foods, helps the person to losses weight by preferring to eat the
food timely and also select lot of fruits and vegetables in their foods products. The positive
impact resulting in improving the memory level and also reduces the chronic diseases such as
cancer, heart stroke or any other major aspects which harm body in wider ways.

Macdiarmid, Douglas and Campbell (2016) argued that sometimes having over or regular
exercise results in various body issue such as back bone problems or stoppage in functioning of
any body parts. Thus, proper recommendation is to be taken from the doctors regarding doing the
exercises as every person had different body shape and also the diseases can be occurs through
different ways. By choosing the heathy foods is not necessary, proper nutrients with multi grain
vitamin and low calories products are to be preferred which helps the individual to maintain their
body weight for longer time period. As it is not necessary that every time healthy foods are to be
preferred to maintain the body weight and sometimes other types of foods are to be preferred but
proper exercises are to be executed with the doctors helps. So that the body issue not to be
reflected in future perspective.
Blue and et.al., (2016) examined that the long term benefits which is gained by choosing
the healthy products reflecting in respect of balancing the diet plan and also exercising on routine
bases. Through this, planning proper diet plan is to be execute and also it schedule the overall
activity of the person. As it bring a proper tabular format regarding availing the healthy food and
also they get the proper nutrients through choosing the right food and eating the foods on right
time. In this time management also play an important role as it is interpreted that to eat foods at
midnight harm the body as it is not properly digested which resulting in having major health
issue.
Adams and et.al., (2016) criticised that the proper diet plan is to be instructed by doctors
reading the amount of usage which the individual had to commit on regular bases. As the need of
every person are different and thus the ratio of eating the healthy foods are also depends upon the
needs of body. Thus balancing the diet plan sometimes resulting in bringing lot of weakness to
the individual. As person is energetic of they get the accurate food products within the stipulated
time. Thus if they skip any of their diet plan or not stick to their diet plan on any day it resulting
in bringing lot of challenges which they had to face to overcome from such factors.
Theme 2: Importance of residential care in improving the quality of life of adults
As per Watkins and et.al., (2017) interviewed that residential care is mainly given to
children and adult for giving the long term care rather than putting them in their own home. The
major importances which are provided to adult are in respect of safety factors which is provided
by nurses and other person which are working in residential care. As the safety factors are in

respect of allowing their family members and relatives to meet with them and also they spend
their time by sharing their decision and activity which they participate in the residential care.
On the contradictory to the Parsons and et.al., (2017) states that safety issue sometime
affecting the policies of the residential care. As if the liability is given to the adults and children
in respect of meeting their family members on regular bases than it results in bringing lot of
consequence (Long Term Care and A good Quality of Life: Bringing them closer together, 2019).
To improve the condition of children and adults, it is important than their family member is near
by them but not on regular bases. As it reflect the interest of the people and they are not ready to
stay at such places for better improvement in their life.
Devlin and et.al., (2018) overviewed that by creating homely environment helps the adult
to develop more interest in residential care services. As in this, the person working under
residential care had to take more strategies to maintain the interest of the adult towards their
services. As through this procedure they can more understand the feeling of the people and also
they can spend time with their family members. The results of the quality life is to be reflected
by having the positive attitude of the patient at the time of treatment. Thus, to provide the feeling
of home and also the activities which they are committing such as interacting with each other,
taking their own decision helps them to improve the condition of life in better way.
Watkins and et.al., (2017) criticised that if the treatment is to be done to improve the
condition through providing the home environment in that perspective, providing homely
environment not necessary always result in having positive aspects. As if they get the smell of
the food which they prepared at home or the choice of eating their own prefer products, it results
in affecting the treatment which they are getting in improving their condition.
Theme 3: Challenges faced by residential care to integrate healthy food habits among adults
According to the Cousins and et.al., (2016) challenges which is faced by residential care
is relating to the mood fluctuation which happens at the time of viewing the foods or inhaling the
smell of the food. As the residential care for e.g. Auburn Mere is providing the homely
environment to the person, so that they can eat and complete their food. With maintaining the
healthy food habits, the foods is to be made according to their own choice. This helps to recover
from their diseases in better way and also they are getting healthy eatable on timely bases. By the
factors related to mood swings, they are not concentrating on the damages which they are
inviting through availing the healthy products.

Buckley, McCormack and Ryan (2018) argued that sometimes mood swings resulting in
increasing their health issue. As through this aspect they are neglecting to prefer the healthy
foods which is needed for improving their condition. Through mood swings, lot of diseases are
invited such as over thinking, taking stress or not eating the food timely which bring lot of
challenges but also give chances to fulfil their wish for single time. As to prefer their own
choices of good for once make them feel more energetic and also it result in bringing more
chances in having improvement in their health conditions.
Barron and West (2017) stated that the another challenges which is faced by residential
care is in respective of managing their health status. As every residence which are residing in
residential care are from different culture and also they are suffering from different health issue.
Thus, to manage the needs and demand of every residences is difficult which result in bringing
major challenge faced in respect of maintaining the quality food products. They had different
techniques of eating the food and also the nutrients which they are getting by preferring such
food in not getting accurate. In this perspective proper training is to be committed regarding the
eating habits and the benefits which is raised by eating at proper way.
Warner, Parr and Cusack (2019) criticised that the culture differences is not the major
issue which is faced by the residential care regarding eating habits. As the demand regarding the
availability of the products are different for different residences. Thus, to manage them in proper
way, innovative methods is used by the care homes for e.g. Auburn Mere used various methods
which enhances their interest in respective of maintaining for longer time period (Auburn Mere,
2019). By this factors they can also taste the foods of different cultures and through this healthy
food products are to be chosen to improve the condition in better perspective. Management is
must in every aspects and also various residences are engaged in residential care, thus to make
proper management in respect of examining their health issue and also their allergy regarding
preferring such food products helps to manage their working in better way.
TASK 3: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research methods- it refers to as the ways or different methods through which the research can
be carried on and can be reached to some conclusions. There are two different types of methods
which can be applied in way of accomplishing the research and achieve its aims and objectives.
These two methods are quantitative method and qualitative method (Taylor, Bogdan and De
Vault, 2015). The quantitative method is a type of process which includes numbers and some