Nutritional Requirements of the Elderly

Munro, H. N.; Suter, Paolo M.; Russell, Robert M.

doi:10.1146/annurev.nu.07.070187.000323

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“…Moreover, poor nutrition, and by extension food insecurity, influences health and well‐being throughout the life cycle, from the prenatal period on into elder years 22–28 . Also, effects of food insecurity on adults in households with children can adversely affect those children in a variety of ways, including diminution of parents' energy for providing care and developmental stimulation.…”

Section: Food Insecurity Child Health and Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Food Security, Poverty, and Human Development in the United States

Cook

Frank

2008

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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Access to food is essential to optimal development and function in children and adults. Food security, food insecurity, and hunger have been defined and a U.S. Food Security Scale was developed and is administered annually by the Census Bureau in its Current Population Survey. The eight child-referenced items now make up a Children's Food Security Scale. This review summarizes the data on household and children's food insecurity and its relationship with children's health and development and with mothers' depressive symptoms. It is demonstrable that food insecurity is a prevalent risk to the growth, health, cognitive, and behavioral potential of America's poor and near-poor children. Infants and toddlers in particular are at risk from food insecurity even at the lowest levels of severity, and the data indicate an "invisible epidemic" of a serious condition. Food insecurity is readily measured and rapidly remediable through policy changes, which a country like the United States, unlike many others, is fully capable of implementing. The food and distribution resources exist; the only constraint is political will.

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Section: Food Insecurity Child Health and Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Food Security, Poverty, and Human Development in the United States

Cook

Frank

2008

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

350

243

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“…Plasma zinc concentrations have been reported to be negatively correlated with age [40] and decreased zinc concentrations have been reported to be found in the plasma of elderly people [14,40,49,50,66]. A study by Wilson and Myskow [86] for example showed that only 18% of patients on a geriatric ward had normal serum zinc concentrations and Stafford et al [79] reported that especially institutionalized elderly have significantly lower serum and leukocyte zinc concentrations than free living elderly.…”

Section: Zinc Intake and Status Of Elderly Individualsmentioning

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The role of trace elements for the health of elderly individuals

Ekmekçioğlu¹

2001

Nahrung

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Elderly individuals have a higher risk to develop trace element deficiencies due to modified dietary habits and requirements, age related physiological changes, drug therapy, and chronic diseases leading to or associated with enhanced consumption or excretion of trace elements. This review gives an overview about the role of zinc, iron, selenium, copper, chromium and fluoride for the health of elderly people in regard of physiological functions, trace element status and intake, and effect of supplementation on clinical parameters and disease outcome.

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“…The lower energy intakes of older people have been noted previously. Apart from the possible influence of appetite, it has been suggested that elderly people lower the amount of calories they consume in response to decreased levels of activity associated with disability [138]. In support of this, Morgan et al [13] found that nutritional status correlated closely with both food intake and disability.…”

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Research on food choice and nutritional status in elderly people: a review

Herne

1995

British Food Journal

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Since the beginning of the 1990s, nutrition education and health promotion have increasingly focused on the influence of diet on the quality of life in old age. The Government′s Health of the Nation policy in 1991 and the COMA report on The Nutrition of Elderly People in 1992 both emphasized the need for older age groups to adopt the dietary changes recommended for the population as a whole. In order to promote healthier eating habits and consequently improve health status, it is first vital to understand what makes elderly people follow particular dietary patterns and, equally, which factors constrain their choice. Reviews the current state of research on the social, economic, psychological, physiological, educational and personal factors which mediate food choice in later life. Indications are that it is the structural influences on choice which have the greatest impact – education, income, class and access to good health care. As a result, action at national level in the form of health and social policy designed to take into account the needs of older generations is highlighted.

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Nutritional Requirements of the Elderly

Cited by 70 publications

References 61 publications

Food Security, Poverty, and Human Development in the United States

Food Security, Poverty, and Human Development in the United States

The role of trace elements for the health of elderly individuals

Research on food choice and nutritional status in elderly people: a review

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