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| Nutrition risk screening of home-delivered meal participants relation of individual risk factors to functional status |
| Author(s) | Joseph R Sharkey, Pamela S Haines |
| Journal title | Journal of Nutrition for the Elderly, vol 22, no 1, 2002 |
| Pages | pp 15-34 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Meals on wheels ; Malnutrition ; At risk ; Mobility ; Self care capacity ; Screening ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The monitoring of nutritional risk and functional status indicators of participants in the US Elderly Nutrition Program (ENP) can provide unique information to help service providers assist these people to remain independent and living at home. This study uses multinomial logit analyses of routinely collected data to examine the link between nutritional risk indicators and disability severity of 1010 home-delivered meal programme participants in Wake County, North Carolina. Five nutritional risk indicators were associated with disability severity: social and economic risk with being disabled only in Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL); weight change and difficulty shopping/cooking with being moderately disabled in Activities of Daily Living (ADL); and medication use with both moderate and severe ADL disability. Whilst women were more likely than men to be moderately ADL disabled, the probability for moderate and severe ADL disability increased with the co-occurrence of medication use and weight change. These findings suggest that the ENP's policymakers and programme planners consider the link between nutritional risk indicators and disability severity in determining future service needs. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-021111207 A |
| Classmark | NS: CSM: CA3: C4: CA: 3V: 3F: 7T |
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