[Purpose] The purpose of the current study was to clarify problems associated with swallowing, related to nutrition and activities of daily living (ADL), in elderly individuals with sarcopenia. [Subjects and Methods] Seventy-seven subjects were assigned to a sarcopenia or a non-sarcopenia group according to a definition used by the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People. Analyses ...

At the beginning of this century, only 4% of the population of the United States was over 65 years of âge. By 1976 this proportion had risen to 11% and is projected to attain 14% by the year 2000 (1). This is important because senior citizens make disproportionate demands on health care. An interesting study in Massachusetts emphasizes the extent of the needs of senior citizens for health care ...

The nutritional needs of the ageing population require special attention. We undertook a cross-sectional, community-based, household survey in Nizwa wilayat, Oman to study nutrition-related knowledge and beliefs and self-reported dietary habits among a sample of elderly people. The response rate for the household interview was 99.3% from a total sample of 2041. About 45% of the elderly were ove...

This paper presents a system for assisting nutrition management for solitary elderly persons. Since dealing with diseases is one of the important issues for solitary elderly, their health control in daily life has been in focus in recent years. As preprocessing to develop a nutrition management system for solitary elderly, systems for discriminating the category of a food image have been propos...

abstract background and purpose:the elderly resident of sari sanatorium is vulnerable in terms of nutrition. this study has been conducted to investigate the nutritive condition of the elderly resident of sari sanatorium in 2011. materials and methods:the method of the present study is periodic and descriptive type. the 104 elderly were studied. the samples’ anthropometric indices were measured...

Introduction: Rapid changes in lifestyle, especially in nutritional aspects of the elderly, have led to many chronic diseases. Therefore, attention to nutritional needs of the elderly is an essential issue. The purpose of this study was to determine the predictors of healthy nutrition behaviors based on health belief model (HBM) in the elderlies of Kalat city, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran.. ...

The extent of the problem of bringing nutrition education to the elderly is partly shown by population statistics: in 1968, when the Geriatric Nutrition Unit was established, there were about 8 .5 million men and women of pensionable age in the UK (i.e. men over 65 and women over 60). By 1973, only 5 years later, numbers had risen to 9.3 million. By the year ZOOI it is forecast that there will ...