Women's Health Medicine
Volume 1, Issue 1 , Pages 34-37, November 2004

Nutrition in elderly women

Alison Smith is a senior community dietitian in Greater Peterborough Primary Care Trust and PR Officer of NAGE (Nutrition Advisory Group for Elderly People), a specialist group of the British Dietetic Association. She qualified from Glasgow Caledonian University. Her work areas include nutrition training for elderly care homes, appropriate prescribing of nutritional supplements and working with the local PMS pilot team for elderly people in the independent sector.

Abstract 

Nutritional status has an enormous effect on health throughout life and has no less impact in the elderly. Elderly women form a varied population in terms of health needs and we must treat them as such. However, poor nutritional status is a widespread issue, particularly for the older, more frail and often less visible elderly and has for too long been seen as an inevitable part of ageing, concomitant with worsening health. It is very clear that this is not the case, and huge benefits to health and quality of life ensue when poor nutritional status is treated.

Keywords:  the elderly and food , nutrition , elderly , women

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PII: S1744-1870(06)00009-6

doi:10.1383/wohm.1.1.34.55419

Women's Health Medicine
Volume 1, Issue 1 , Pages 34-37, November 2004

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