Malnutrition
Research
and Reports
2004
Blanc
S, Schoeller DA, Bauer D, Danielson ME, Tylavsky F, Simonsick EM,
Harris TB, Kritchevsky SB, Everhart JE. Energy requirements in the
eighth decade of life. Am J Clin Nutr. 2004;79:303-310.
Rypkema
G, Adang E, Dicke H, Naber T, De Swart B, Disselhorst L, GOLuKE-WILLEMSE
G, Olde Rikkert M. Cost-effectiveness of an interdisciplinary intervention
in geriatric inpatients to prevent malnutrition. J Nutr Health
Aging. 2004;8:122-127.
2003
Christensson
L, Unossons M, Ek AC. Measurement of perceived health problems as
a means of detecting elderly people at risk of malnutrition. J
Nutr Health Aging. 2003;7:257-262.
Crogan NL, Pasvogel A. The influence of protein-calorie malnutrition
on quality of life in nursing homes. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med
Sci. 2003;58:M159-M164.
Gazzotti
C, Arnaud-Battandier F, Parello M, Farine S, Seidel L, Albert A,
Petermans J. Prevention of malnutrition in older people during and
after hospitalisation: results from a randomised controlled clinical
trial. Age Ageing. 2003;32:321-325.
Rikkert
MGM, Rigaud AS. Malnutrition research: high time to change the menu.
Age Ageing. 2003;32:241-243.
Wendland BE, Greenwood CE, Weinberg I, Young KWH. Malnutrition
in institutionalized seniors: the iatrogenic component. J Am
Geriatr Soc. 2003;51:85-90
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nutritional status on clinical outcome after acute stroke. Am
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Resources
2002 and earlier
Nutrition at Risk (1999). For professionals and
consumers, this guidebook addresses food intake, effects
of malnutrition, and frequent drugs causing malnutrition. Includes
physical signs, laboratory signs, and body mass index. Kobriger
Presents, Inc. (888) 687-4806.
Partners
in Information Access for Public Health Professionals. For
professionals and consumers, this website provides information
and evidence-based strategies related to the Healthy People 2010
objectives. The National Library of Medicine and the Public Health
Foundation Information Access Project.
Prevent Malnutrition/Dehydration: MDS Calculation Factors.
For professionals and consumers, this guidebook provides
specific calculation factors used for care planing that has nutrition
and hydration implications for unintended weight loss and dehydration.
Kobriger Presents, Inc.
(888) 687-4806.
Nutrition Problems of the Elderly. For professionals and consumers,
this video (item #246) reviews malnourishment, including
obesity and PCM; chewing problems; alcoholism; drug-food interactions;
constipation; iron; dehydration; eating alone vs. lonely eating.
National Health Video. (800) 543-6803.
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