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Abstract from the well-known facts in hospitality industry field that is within the elements of the success of any hotel institution are two key factors: comfortable accommodation for the guest and healthy food. These are key factors in attracting customers and repeating guests visit to the hotel institution, if malfunction occurred in one or both of these elements, the institution will not continue along and it will fail miserably. Hotel health is a system of multilateral aspects that requires the availability of healthy conditions in every part of its aspects, such as food safety, food handling employees’s health, hotel property health, health of equipments and tools that come into contact with food, proper hygiene practices, stores and food handling places health, environment health, public health, entertainment places health, water health, waste disposal and pest control in healthy ways that do not cause environment pollution or food contamination and do not negatively affect on guests and employees health (Abu Tor*, 2007). Elderly issues and conditions had a clear and growing interest which is globally and locally since the beginning of the second half of the twentieth century and yet, this growing interest of the elderly issues and their problems is result to the continuous increasing in elderly category size compared to the total size of population, globally and locally (Helmy and Murad*, 1991). The global share of older people (aged 60 years or over) increased from 9.2 % in 1990 to 11.7 % in 2013 and will continue to grow reaching 21.1 % by 2050. Globally, the number of older persons (aged 60 years or over) is expected to more than double, from 841 million people in 2013 to more than 2 billion in 2050 (United Nations, 2013). The proportion of the elderly in Egypt amounted to about 6% of the total population in Egypt according to the results of the 2006 census, the results of the general census of the population during the past two decades also indicate that the number of elderly people increased from 2.7 million to 4.4 million people between 1986 and 2006 (Egypt Information Portal (EIP)*, 2008). |