nutrition and the older adult. (cover story)The importance of ensuring adequate nutrition in older people is often acknowledged but, the evidence suggests, theory is not always matched by practice. This article describes causes of malnutrition in older adults and discusses nursing strategies to ...
A tool to assess nutritional status in older persons was really needed. It took 5 years to design the MNA® (Mini Nutrition Assessment) tool, complete
Methods for determining appropriate content of older adult nutrition education intervention programs and strategies for effectively delivering nutrition me... MM Higgins,MC Barkley - 《Journal of Nutrition for the Elderly》 被引量: 64发表: 2003年 Nutrition information topic and format preferences of old...
Nutrition is associated with frailty, functional impairments, and mortality in elderly people. Only a few studies focused on oldest-old hospitalized patients with worse health and more comorbidities compared with the general older adults in China. This s
With age, your body doesn’t absorb nutrients well, so every calorie you consume must be packed with nutrition. Here are 9 nutrients older adults often need more of.
all of which appear to have distinct disease risk. One such phenotype is the so-called sarcopenic-obesity, with an aberrant muscle mass content and abnormal fat distribution. This phenotype, contrary to classical sarcopenia, which is especially observed in the older populations, appears to arise as...
Nutrition and hydration are vital components of critical care nursing. However, meeting the nutrition and hydration needs of the critically ill older adult is often complex, because of preexisting risk factors (malnutrition, unintentional weight loss, frailty, and dehydration); as well as intensive ...
There is an urgent need for more nutritional data relating to maintaining function with age as opposed to disease prevention, to guide health promotion policies and clinical management of increasingly older population and patients. A shift in the gathering of national nutrition data may need to ...
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produced mixed results (St-Onge et al., 2016). Pooled evidence indicates that short sleep duration is a risk factor for obesity (Itani et al., 2017). While poor sleep quality has been linked with the development of themetabolic syndromein middle-aged and older adults (Troxel et al., ...