Evaluation of the Nutritional Status of Elderly Subjects, With a Comparison Between Fall and Spring*

Dibble, Marjorie V.; Brin, Myron; Thiele, V. F.; Peel, Annette; Chen, N.; McMullen, Elsa A.

doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.1967.tb02168.x

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“…Peak of overweight is reached during the fifth decade, followed by either a reduction in weight, or, as life insurance statistics suggest, a decreased survival of the obese groups (Dibble, Brin, Thiele, Peel, Chen, & McMullen, 1967). There is a marked increase in the number of lean persons in the population after the age of 60 years for men and about 67 years for women (Durnin, 1968).…”

Section: Calorie Requirementsmentioning

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Nutritional Requirements of the Elderly

Franz¹

1981

Journal of Nutrition For the Elderly

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Nutritional Requirements of the Elderly

Franz¹

1981

Journal of Nutrition For the Elderly

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“…Ver and Love (21) found that nearly one‐third (30.1 per cent) of a population of institutionalized elderly were deficient in thiamine. Dibble et al (22) found thiamine deficiency in 11 per cent of the residents in community homes, and Pollitt and Salkeld (23) reported thiamine deficiency in 30 per cent of patients aged 62 or older admitted to British hospitals. It has been suggested that alcohol intake may contribute to inadequate thiamine status because alcohol causes thiamine deficiency by reducing the intake, decreasing absorption, and impairing the utilization of thiamine (24–26).…”

Section: Drugs Frequently Used By the Elderly Which Can Affect The Abmentioning

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“…Another demonstrated deficiency among the elderly is that of riboflavin (21, 22, 28). Ver and Love (29) assessed the nutritional status of 196 aged subjects residing at home or in institutions and found that the dietary intake of riboflavin was less than two‐thirds of the recommended level in 33.3 per cent of the males and 17.9 per cent of the females.…”

Section: Drugs Frequently Used By the Elderly Which Can Affect The Abmentioning

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Appropriateness of Vitamin and Mineral Prescription Orders for Residents of Health Related Facilities*

Sorensen

Zimmer

1979

J American Geriatrics Society

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A study was made of the medical charts of 433 elderly patients admitted to four Health Related Facilities in upper New York State, to determine whether the respective prescription orders for vitamins and minerals were appropriate to the given diagnoses and, if not, identify the variables correlated with inappropriateness. For 11.1 percent of the patients, vitamins or minerals were prescribed when there was no specific diagnostic indication, or they were not prescribed when the medical diagnosis indicated that they should have been. Women and medicaid patients were more likely than men and self-paying patients to be treated inappropriately with respect to vitamins and minerals, but the differences were not satistically significant.

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“…Significant portions of the population have inadequate levels of ascorbic acid, riboflavin and thiamine (45, 46). A low serum folate level is frequently found in the elderly (47, 48).…”

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The Geriatric Patient: Age‐dependent Physiologic and Pathologic Changes

Lamy

Kitler

1971

J American Geriatrics Society

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Age-dependent physiologic and pathologic changes are discussed under the categories of the soft tissues, the eardlovascular, digestive, respiratory, skeletal and nervous systems, the genito-urinary tract, the senses, speech, hearing, visual function, and the nutritional state.Aging does not affect the whole organism uniformly; rather, it involves the various organs and organ systems to different degrees and in different fashions. Many ideas have been advanced in an effort to explain the process of aging. It has been viewed simply as a decline in free energy with time, i.e., the energy which is needed by the cell to perform its variojjs functions ( 1). As a consequence of aging, there is a decline in the efficiency of physiologic regulation (2); thus the organism is less resistant to stress than is a younger one. The activities of several enzymes decrease with age, due either to a decrease in the rate of synthesis or a change in enzyme structure (3, 4). Other changes with age are: major structural damage to chromosomes (5), accumulation of organic matter in the soft tissues (6), and an accelerated rate of accumulation of gamma globulin with an accelerated rate of decrease of other serum globulin fractions (7).Aging has also been described as a normal part of the life cycle, an intrinsic process which is genetically determined (8). This may well be based on inborn metabolic defects which could be the basic reason for the physiologic changes observed with aging (9). It has been proposed that certain regions of the DNA molecule may not be accessible for transcription, which in turn could cause decreased protein synthesis. However, an increased rate of protein synthesis has also been proposed, based on the theory that this might be necessary to compensate for inactive enzymes (10). Friedman (11) finds no real, direct evidence that structural protein deteriorates with age but points out that connective tissue increases with age.The process of aging has also been summarized as a gradual loss of functional cells and a gradual impairment of the biochemical processes in those cells which do remain functional (12). Birren (13) attributes the aging

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Evaluation of the Nutritional Status of Elderly Subjects, With a Comparison Between Fall and Spring*

Cited by 35 publications

References 20 publications

Nutritional Requirements of the Elderly

Nutritional Requirements of the Elderly

Appropriateness of Vitamin and Mineral Prescription Orders for Residents of Health Related Facilities*

The Geriatric Patient: Age‐dependent Physiologic and Pathologic Changes

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