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| Functional ability and nutritional status of free-living elderly people | | Author(s) | Mary C Manandhar |
| Journal title | Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, vol 54, 1995 |
| Pages | pp 677-691 |
| Keywords | Self care capacity ; Mobility ; Nutrition ; Developing countries ; India ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | According to a 1994 World Bank report, almost half a billion people in the world were over 60 years old in 1990. By 2035, three-quarters of over 60s will be living in developing countries. Traditional health measures of life expectancy and morbidity begin to appear inadequate outcomes against which to measure any health or nutritional indicator in older people, or to evaluate preventive strategies. The author considers the following questions: Is functional ability an appropriate outcome indicator of health and nutritional status in free-living people in developing countries? What is functional ability and how can it be assessed? Is there any evidence of a relationship between functional ability and nutritional status in free-living older people? The author focuses on the community as the site in which functional impairment first appears most often, with a bias towards malnutrition in developing countries. Reference is made to recent fieldwork among slum dwellers in Bombay, but no data is presented. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990301208 A |
| Classmark | CA: C4: CF: 7B: 7FA: 64A * |
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