Eating difficulties, assisted eating and nutritional status in elderly (gt-or-equal, slanted65 years) patients in hospital rehabilitation.
Författare
Summary, in English
This study describes frequencies and associations between eating difficulties, assisted eating and nutritional status in 520 elderly patients in hospital rehabilitation. Eating difficulties were observed during a meal and nutritional status was assessed with Subjective Global Assessment form. Eighty-two percent of patients had one or more eating difficulties, 36% had assisted eating and 46% malnutrition. Three components of eating were focused upon ingestion, deglutition, and energy (eating and intake). Deglutition and ingestion difficulties and low energy were associated with assisted eating, and low energy associated with malnutrition. Underestimation of low energy puts patients at risk of having or developing malnutrition.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2002
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
341-351
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
International Journal of Nursing Studies
Volym
39
Issue
3
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Elsevier
Ämne
- Nursing
Nyckelord
- Health Services for the Aged
- Nutritional Status
- Inpatients
- Human
- Support Non-U.S. Gov't
- Rehabilitation
- Eating Disorders
- Eating
- Aged
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1873-491X