Review of the Nutritional Status in Older Adult Population

The leading causes of death in older adults involve nutritional risk factors, heart disease, cancer, stroke and diabetes. Prevalence lifestyle diseases, consider themselves good, very good or excellent health. Older want to remain independent not burden others; they believe proper nutrition sufficient exercise will help them maintain their autonomy independence. To describe the diet, general health status adult population Spain adherence traditional MD. A bibliographic search was performed following databases: PubMed, ScienceDirect, Google Scholar for original research articles, clinical trials, observational studies published last 10 yrs. articles were selected using filters eligibility criteria. Many found, through applying selection criteria, 21 chosen a full review. present multitude pathologies that are treated with drugs an optimal diet would promote better quality life. Cognitive deterioration leads suffer great loss life must be alleviated best way possible. Most people meet dietary needs, but high body mass indexes obtained. MD is reference technique put into practice by this part developed most helps have aging.