ReviewThe Proceedings of the Nutrition Society2018
Improving nutrition to support healthy ageing: what are the opportunities for intervention?
Review in The Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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54 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- A person-centred approach to further develop a digital tool (KOKU-Nut) by developing a nutrition game for older adults living in the community.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Risk of malnutrition, food insecurity, dietary quality, and associated factors among Malawian older adults at hospital admission: a cross-sectional study.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Nutritional status and its influencing factors of urban Chinese adults aged 40-69 years.Asia Pacific journal of clinical nutrition · 2025Article
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- Health Deficits Among People Experiencing Homelessness in an Australian Capital City: An Observational Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Observational
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- Health Status of People Who Are and Are Not Experiencing Homelessness: Opportunities for Improvement.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- The healthy eating index for older adults: adaptation of the 2015 healthy eating index considering dietary guidelines for healthy aging.European journal of nutrition · 2024Article
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Abstract
Alongside declining activity levels, energy needs fall in older age and eating less is expected. However, as total food consumption declines, intakes of many nutrients are also likely to fall; while energy requirements may be met, other nutrient needs may not. Although this highlights the importance of nutrient-dense foods and overall diet quality in older age to ensure nutrient intakes are sufficient, maintaining or increasing diet quality may be difficult at a time when food access and preparation are becoming more challenging, and diets may be more monotonous. Poor nutrition, even in developed settings, is common. Older malnourished adults are more likely to have poorer health outcomes, longer hospital stays and increased mortality. Thus, apart from the evident personal costs, the economic burden of disease-related malnutrition is significant, and effective preventive strategies to promote good nutrition among older populations are needed. In particular, there is a need for wider recognition of malnutrition risk among older adults, including implementation of routine screening of nutritional status and early diagnosis. Design of future interventions to support older community-dwelling adults requires a clear understanding of the personal and contextual influences that affect patterns of food choice and consumption, including consideration of the importance of social and psychological factors. In addition, there are opportunities to intervene earlier in the lifecourse; the most effective preventive efforts to promote good nutrition in older age may need to start ahead of age-related changes in physiology and function, including younger adulthood and at the retirement transition.
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