<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Sufficient caloric intake is important to maintain the balanced health status, especially during the period of aging, as aging and sickness share paths. Maintaining adequate nutritional balance is the best preventive measure to counteract the risk of malnutrition. There are several causes for malnutrition in elderly people, and some techniques such as anthropometric measurements, laboratory and clinical parameters could help to diagnose malnutrition in these patients. The use of a simple validated questionnaire called the ‘Mini Nutritional Assessment’ measures the nutritional status of elderly patients. In this review, we discuss about the malnutrition in elderly people with and without a known cause and we present some of nutritional intervention. There are promising strategies that help overcoming malnutrition.</p></abstract>

Sufficient caloric intake is important to maintain the balanced health status, especially during the period of aging, as aging and sickness share paths. Maintaining adequate nutritional balance is the best preventive measure to counteract the risk of malnutrition. There are several causes for malnutrition in elderly people, and some techniques such as anthropometric measurements, laboratory and clinical parameters could help to diagnose malnutrition in these patients. The use of a simple validated questionnaire called the ‘Mini Nutritional Assessment’ measures the nutritional status of elderly patients. In this review, we discuss about the malnutrition in elderly people with and without a known cause and we present some of nutritional intervention. There are promising strategies that help overcoming malnutrition.

Aging and nutrition. Paving the way to better health

“A. Murri” Clinica Medica, Department of Biomedical Sciences & Human Oncology

Department of Emergency and Organ Transplants, Section of Endocrinology, Andrology and Metabolic Diseases

Romanian Journal of Internal Medicine

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Sufficient caloric intake is important to maintain the balanced health status, especially during the period of aging, as aging and sickness share paths....

Aging and nutrition. Paving the way to better health

Publié en ligne: 02 juin 2020

Pages: 55 - 68

Reçu: 22 janv. 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjim-2020-0005

Mots clés
aging, anthropometric assessment, elderly, malnutrition, nutrition

© 2020 Emilio Molina-Molina et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Aging and nutrition. Paving the way to better health

Publié en ligne: 02 juin 2020

Pages: 55 - 68

Reçu: 22 janv. 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjim-2020-0005

Mots clésaging, anthropometric assessment, elderly, malnutrition, nutrition

© 2020 Emilio Molina-Molina et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Mots clés
aging, anthropometric assessment, elderly, malnutrition, nutrition