BACKGROUND Different physiological, social and psychological factors contribute to nutritional risk in elderly population. Elderly women residing at old age homes are particularly susceptible. OBJECTIVES To find out psychological and financial factors, if any, associated with malnutrition and risk of malnutrition. METHODS A cross sectional descriptive study was conducted on 200 residents be...

BACKGROUND & AIMS Large-scale studies performed in hospitals with the validated Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) tool are scarce. However, factors associated with malnutrition are important for identifying individuals at risk. The aims of the present study were to estimate the prevalence of malnutrition and to examine the association between mealtime habits, meal provision, and malnutrition am...

The 'malnutrition universal screening tool' ('MUST') for adults has been developed for all health care settings and patient groups, but ease of use and agreement with other published tools when screening to identify malnutrition requires investigation. The present study assessed the agreement and the prevalence of malnutrition risk between 'MUST' and a variety of other tools in the same patient...

The Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) is recommended for grading nutritional status in the elderly. A new index for predicting the risk of nutrition-related complications, the Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index (GNRI), was recently proposed but little is known about its possible use in the assessment of nutritional status. Thus, we aimed to investigate its ability to assess the nutritional status...

Background: Nutritional risk is relatively common in community-dwelling older people. Objective: To objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of individual dietary counseling as part of a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment on nutritional status among community-dwelling people aged 75 years or older. Methods: Data were obtained from a subpopulation of participants in the population-bas...

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 women aged 60 years and older. MEASUREMENTS Comprehensive geriatric assessment was done for ev...

BACKGROUND A new analytical variation of bioelectrical impedance vector analysis (BIVA), called specific BIVA, has shown to be more accurate in detecting changes in fat mass than classic BIVA. OBJECTIVE To compare classic and specific BIVA in order to identify which is more strongly associated with psycho-functional and nutritional indicators in a group of institutionalised elderly patients w...

OBJECTIVE The aim was to study the effect of individualised meals on nutritional status among older people living in municipal residential homes and to compare the results with a control group. An additional aim was to estimate direct health care costs for both groups. SETTING Six different municipal residential homes in the south-east of Sweden. PARTICIPANTS Older people living in three re...