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• TITLE: Elderly Persons Aged 80 Years and Older and Their Nutritional Status

  AUTHORS: Mona Persenius, Gertrud Glawing, Hans-Bertil Hermansson, Ingela Karlsson

  KEYWORDS: Elderly, Malnutrition, Mini Nutritional Assessment, Nursing Home, Ordinary Housing

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Nursing, Vol.4 No.5, April 25, 2014

  ABSTRACT: A challenge for health care providers is that there will be a distinct rise globally in the number of elderly people aged 80 years and over. Malnutrition is a well-known problem among elderly people; few studies have focused on the nutritional status of those aged over 80, irrespective of whether they live in nursing homes (NHs) or in ordinary housing. The aim of the study was to examine the nutritional status of elderly people aged 80 or older. The study was cross-sectional with 64 elderly persons (80 - 100 years old) living in NHs (n = 35) or in ordinary housing (n = 29). Their nutritional status was assessed with the Mini Nutritional Assessment. Among the elderly people living in NHs, half were at risk and one fourth were suffering from malnutrition. Ten percent of the elderly persons in ordinary housing were found to be at risk; none were malnourished. Thirty-one percent had BMI values