As a result, older adults may experience physical limitations or the inability to perform activities of daily living, including meal preparation, which can have a negative effect on their nutritional status. Clinical management of chronic conditions and disability will become increasingly costly as the...
The ICOPE step 1 includes some nutrition assessment (weight loss, poor appetite), and MNA® is part of the ICOPE program step 2, Integrated care of older persons (figure 3) to maintain functions in older adults (393–395). Our practice needs really to move to prevention and ambulatory ...
A good nutrition for a person is essential to the good healthy body and prevents diseases and other health problems, the individual should be provided with knowledge about nutrition and the body nutritional requirement through the lifespan. Objective: To Assessing Nutritional ...
This article, the last in the series, will review the special nutritional needs of the older person. Older adults form an increasing proportion of our society, and it is important that nurses appreciate their special needs. The article concentrates on the health older adult, and reviews what ...
Malnutrition among older adults plays an important role in clinical and functional impairment. The aim of our study was to evaluate all parameters of Mini-
OBJECTIVES: To delineate the difference in nutritional risk between older adults with normal cognitive function and mild cognitive impairment living in elderly homes. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING: Three elderly homes in Cairo, Egypt. PARTICIPANTS: One hundred twenty older adults; men and wom...
LEARNING OUTCOME: To identify risk factors for poor nutrition in older residents of personal care homes. Abstract It was hypothesized that there would be a high prevalence of nutrition related problems in older adults in personal care homes (21 homes, 80 residents, 79 ± 9 years of age, 86%...
Nutritional intakes in community-dwelling older Japanese adults: high intakes of energy and protein based on high consumption of fish, vegetables and fruit... (2004) Nutritional intakes in community-dwelling older Japanese adults: high intakes of energy and protein based on high consumption of fish...
The two-month study evaluated the effects of the formula, called NT-020, on the cognitive performance of these older adults, who had no diagnosed memory disorders. Those randomized to the group of 52 volunteers receiving NT-020 demonstrated improvements in cognitive processing speed, while the 53...
Nutritional supplements for older adults: review and recommendations--Part II. The majority of older adults take nutritional supplements (NS) to prevent deficiencies and/or because they are interested in the potential health promoting... G Buhr,CW Bales - 《Journal of Nutrition for the Elderly》...