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Screening community-dwelling elders for nutritional risk: determining the influence of race and residence
Author(s)Nancy E Schoenberg, Raymond T Coward, Gregg H Gilbert
Journal titleJournal of Applied Gerontology, vol 16, no 2, June 1997
Pagespp 172-189
KeywordsNutrition ; Malnutrition ; Rural areas ; Black people ; United States of America.
AnnotationThis investigation examined nutritional risk among two sub-groups of older adults: African Americans and geographically isolated older people. Telephone interviews were conducted with a stratified random sample of 1,126 respondents and included a 10-item nutritional risk appraisal. Results indicated that over one half of the sample may be considered to be at moderate or high nutritional risk, with African American and rural older people at disproportionately higher risk and rural black older people at highest risk across a variety of indicators. The nutritional vulnerability of these groups may prompt practitioners to design and target services specifically for their needs, while also stimulating research to improve our understanding of the factors that account for these differential risks. (AKM).
Accession NumberCPA-981015222 A
ClassmarkCF: CSM: RL: TKE: 7T

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