NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF GERIATRIC SUBJECTS LIVING IN OLDAGE INSTITUTIONS
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2019-08-08
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BANGALORE
Abstract
The study aimed at assessing the nutritional status of geriatric subjects living in oldage
institutions in the age group of 60-100 years who were selected from the three different
old age institutions located in Bangalore. The results revealed that the majority of the
geriatric subjects both females (79.36%) and males (54.05%) had no source of income.
BMI classification showed that, underweight was most prevalent both in females
(66.66%) and males (54.05%) respectively. The different tools used to assess nutritional
status gave diversified results when compared with BMI. As per the scores of MNA tool
males (70.27%) were predominantly assessed to be ‘at risk of malnourishment’. MUST
tool based unplanned weight loss and BMI indicated that majority of the females were at
low risk of malnourishment (55.55%) and males were at medium risk of malnourishment
(51.35%). DII is an assessment which is purely based on the diet and takes no bodily
measurements into consideration determined that all the subjects had a good quality of
dietary intake. Training programme was conducted on nutritional education. Brown rice
kichidi mix was developed providing 1/4th of RDA was given for acceptance. The product
was well accepted. Malnutrition assessment tools like MNA, MUST and DII are found to
provide efficient and accurate analyses of malnourishment and BMI is one of the part of
the assessment tools. Hence, it is best to use the different tools rather than using BMI to
assess their nutritional status.