To address these issues, a multi-method research approach will be used, incorporating Universal Product Code (UPC) scanning technology combined with a dynamically growing database of foods and their associated nutritional parameters to catalogue the in-home food supply, an extant home food safety audit form, modified for study use, and a computer-enhanced questionnaire administered during an in-home interview. This project will provide a useful understanding of the nutritional and food safety gaps in this at-risk population that will allow for the design and testing of interventions to improve the food safety of both the HDM and the in-home food available to the homebound elderly. It will also provide clear and useful guidelines about the amount and types of food most needed by this population in emergency situations. Dissemination of the resulting research findings and recommendations will be accomplished through a partnership with the Extension Disaster Education Network (EDEN) and MOWA, both of whom have national constituencies poised to act on the recommendations.