Aims: To identify the impact of social participation, socio-demographic, socio-economic and disease factors on nutritional risk among older persons in Hong Kong. Background: Few published work has investigated the relative risks of social participation, demographic, socioeconomic and disease factors with malnutrition in community-living older people, this study is to investigate the association...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA), the Nutritional Risk Screening (NRS) 2002 and the American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status Score (ASA) as predictors of gait status and mortality 6 months after hip fracture. A total of eighty-eight consecutive patients over the age of 65 years with hip fracture admitted to an orthopaedic unit were ...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to describe the nutritional status of geriatric home residents according to their place of dwelling and to identify institutional factors associated with higher rates of undernutrition. METHODS All institutions (514) in the Aquitaine region were interviewed for staff ratio, nutritional procedures, staff training, and other procedures in the area of nutrition. A stra...

OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of malnutrition and its relation to various factors in community-dwelling elderly with newly diagnosed Alzheimer's disease (AD). DESIGN Retrospective cross-sectional study. SETTING Memory clinic in a rural part of the Netherlands. PARTICIPANTS 312 Community-dwelling AD patients, aged 65 years or older, were included. MEASUREMENTS At the time the di...

Objectives: To investigate prevalence of malnutrition and nutritional risk, related factors, the association between status quality life in elderly.
 Material Method: Cross-sectional study. Participants; elderly (≥65 years) patients without severe hearing vision impairment dependency on a bed or wheel chair who admitted internal medicine outpatient clinics. Measurements; mini assessment qu...

OBJECTIVES A study was undertaken to determine which nutritional assessment tool would be better in assessing changes in nutritional status over time in hospitalised older patients. The two tools used were the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) and the Subjective Global Assessment (SGA). DESIGN Single blind, prospective study conducted over a 60-day period. SETTING Five regional hospitals wi...

Malnutrition is a frequent complication for elderly demented patients even if they live at their own home with the assistance of a caregiver. The present study evaluates nutritional characteristics of a population of 130 non-institutionalized demented patients. The results show that the mini nutritional assessment (MNA) total score is inversely related with the neuro-psychiatric inventory (NPI)...

The Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) is a simple tool, useful in clinical practice to measure nutritional status in elderly persons. From its validation in 1994, the MNA has been used in hundreds of studies and translated into more then 20 languages. It is a well-validated tool, with high sensitivity, specificity, and reliability. An MNA score > or = 24 identifies patients with a good nutritio...

BACKGROUND Stroke often causes functional decline in patients. Therefore, after the acute phase, many patients require post-acute care (PAC) to maximize their functional progress, reduce disability, and make it possible for them to return to their home and community. PAC can be provided in different settings. Taiwan's National Health Insurance (NHI) proposed a PAC pilot program, effective since...

BACKGROUND Aging induces physiological changes and affects all of organs. Nutritional status and mental health deteriorate with aging. As malnutrition and depression are main problem in elderly this study was performed to assess the association between malnutrition and depression among rural elderly. MATERIALS AND METHODS Three hundred and seventy rural elderly aged over 60 years were examine...