Nutritional Vulnerability in Older Adults: A Continuum of Concerns

A nutritionally vulnerable older adult has a reduced physical reserve that limits the ability to mount a vigorous recovery in the face of an acute health threat or stressor. Often, this vulnerability contributes to more medical complications, longer hospital stays, and increased likelihood of nursin...

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Published inCurrent nutrition reports Vol. 4; no. 2; pp. 176 - 184
Main Authors Starr, Kathryn N. Porter, McDonald, Shelley R., Bales, Connie W.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Springer US 01.06.2015
Subjects
Cardiology
Clinical Nutrition
Diabetes
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Nutrition and Aging (KM Beavers
Oncology
Section Editor
Topical Collection on Nutrition and Aging
Malnutrition
Nutritionally vulnerable
Community dwelling
Older adults
Hospital malnutrition
Long-term care
long term care
older adults
hospital malnutrition
malnutrition
community dwelling
nutritionally vulnerable
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Summary:A nutritionally vulnerable older adult has a reduced physical reserve that limits the ability to mount a vigorous recovery in the face of an acute health threat or stressor. Often, this vulnerability contributes to more medical complications, longer hospital stays, and increased likelihood of nursing home admission. We have characterized in this review the etiology of nutritional vulnerability across the continuum of the community, hospital, and long-term care settings. Frail older adults may become less vulnerable with strong, consistent, and individualized nutritional care. Interventions for the vulnerable older adult must take their nutritional needs into account to optimize resiliency in the face of the acute and/or chronic health challenges they will surely face in their life course.
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ISSN:2161-3311
2161-3311
DOI:10.1007/s13668-015-0118-6