Elderly Food Freshness Dashboard

Visualising sensory burden, food waste risk and everyday grocery practices.

Data source: my COMM2754 interview dataset (8 elderly participants).
Total participants
8
Number of elderly interviewees in this dataset.
Average age
71.6 yrs
Mean age across all participants.
Average sensory burden
0.9
Higher values = more combined sensory issues.
Average food waste risk
0.38
0 = low, 1 = medium, 2 = high.

Participants overview

ID Alias Age Living situation Sensory burden Digital literacy Food waste risk
4 Mr Liu 80 Three‑generation household 1 1 – Medium 0 – Low
3 Ms Zhang 76 Urban, living alone 1 1 – Medium 0 – Low
6 Mr Zhao 74 Rural, living alone 1 1 – Medium 0 – Low
1 Mrs Li 72 Rural, living alone 1 0 – Low 0 – Low
7 Mrs Zhou 70 Care home resident 1 1 – Medium 0 – Low
2 Mr Wang 68 Urban, living with spouse 0 1 – Medium 2 – High
5 Ms Huang 67 Middle‑class couple 0 1 – Medium 0 – Low
8 Mr Chen 66 Urban, tech‑savvy 0 1 – Medium 1 – Medium

Food waste risk distribution

This chart summarises how many elderly participants fall into each food waste risk level.

Ability & sensory issues (overall vs high-risk group)

This radar chart compares average sensory and eating-related difficulties between all participants and those with the highest food-waste risk (Level 2).

Food waste risk levels – proportion

The doughnut chart shows how many participants fall into low, medium and high food-waste risk categories.