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| Validity of nutritional status as a marker for future disability and depressive symptoms among high-risk older adults | | Author(s) | Chad Boult, U Beate Krinke, Cristina Flood Urdangarin |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 47, no 8, August 1999 |
| Pages | pp 995-999 |
| Keywords | Nutrition ; Screening ; At risk ; Physical disabilities ; Depression ; Death ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The DETERMINE Checklist is a 10-item, weighted questionnaire designed to identify older persons whose nutritional status should be evaluated more completely. This study measured the validity of the DETERMINE Checklist as a marker for future functional disability, depressive symptoms, and mortality among high risk older adults. Participants were 251 community-dwelling older people at high risk for hospital admission who received geriatric evaluation and management (GEM). Participants with baseline Checklist scores of four or higher were found to be significantly more likely than those with lower scores to have functional disability or high levels of depressive symptoms a year later. Checklist scores did not predict mortality. The study concluded that the Checklist could be used as a secondary screen to identify older people who, without treatment, are at especially high-risk to have disability or depression a year later. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991210002 A |
| Classmark | CF: 3V: CA3: BN: ENR: CW: 4C: 7T |
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