Nutrition represents a significant area of care for elderly people. Quality of life, independence and overall healthare influenced by nutritional status. The prevalence of malnutrition in the elderly appears to be disturbingly high:be...
Digital health technologies have been reported to improve health care quality through increased access to health information and services [16]. Also, the use of mobile phone based (mHealth) programs to deliver lifestyle or weight loss interventions in adults, older children and adolescents have ...
For more than 20 years, the residential aged care sector in Australia has been highly criticized. The most recent national enquiry was a Royal Commission that reported in 2021, which was critical of a range of issues around food and nutrition, including the failure to manage the rate of malnu...
but there was good representation of a range of facility types. Despite this, it is unclear if all findings are generalisable to the broader range of aged care homes, as it is possible that facilities with higher compliance with the guidelines were more likely to respond, introducing the potent...
The intervention settings included healthcare premises [29, 32, 33, 38, 42, 43, 45, 47], the participant's home [30, 34, 36, 39–41], healthcare premises and at home [28, 35], in a university facility [48], in a community setting [46] or this information was unspecified [31...
SNAP, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; WIC, women, infants, and children. 1 Values are significant. 2 Higher education includes some college, technical or vocational school, or higher degree. The majority of FACE Programs on Navajo Nation adhered to beverage-related recommendations (Supplement...
The CWC is a comprehensive child health care package that involves the provision of immunization, food and/or micronutrient supplementation, growth monitoring, nutrition education and counselling [10]. These services are provided during monthly visits to the health facility. GMP has been shown to ...
breast feeding status, consumption of minimum acceptable diet,taking an intestinal drug, child medical illness(fever,Diarrhea,shortness of breath), distance to the health facility, frequency of Antenatal Care (ANC), Timing of ANC, place of delivery,and baby postnatal check within two days after ...
Best practice food and nutrition manual for aged care facilities.(Book Review)Kokkinakos, Maria
Aim: The global trends of rapid population ageing and increased risk of malnutrition among older people have a tremendous impact on nutrition care for the elderly. The present paper offers an overview of the challenging nutritional needs and problems of the elderly and explores strategies related to...