Nutritional Risk in Older Adults in Different Healthcare Settings
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Geriatric Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 February 2025 | Viewed by 52
Special Issue Editor
Interests: disease-related malnutrition; obesity; sarcopenia; frailty; body composition; diet therapy; oral nutritional supplements; enteral nutrition; parenteral nutrition
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Older people are expected to constitute a growing sector of the world’s population in the coming decades.
Aging is associated with various comorbidities, polymedication, functional dependence, and cognitive impairment, which imply various physical and mental disabilities and, consequently, pose major challenges for the care of the elderly population in different healthcare settings.
Nutritional disorders contribute to increasing the vulnerability of the elderly population, leading to nutritional deficiencies that directly contribute to worsening their health status and quality of life. Nutritional risk, frailty, muscle wasting, and sarcopenia are some of the age-related problems that lead to increased nutritional compromise, dependency, loss of strength, and functional impairment.
The proposal for this Special Issue, “Nutritional Risk in Older Adults in Different Healthcare Settings”, focuses on a relevant topic: nutritional risk and associated disorders in different healthcare settings (communities, nursing homes, and hospitals). This Special Issue is open to discussion of all age-related diseases and nutritional disorders in older adults. Therefore, innovative articles covering the following topics are welcome:
- Nutritional assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of nutritional disorders.
- Nutritional tools, methods, or techniques related to the identification and assessment of body composition, loss of muscle mass, and/or impairment of functional capacity associated with frailty and sarcopenia in the elderly.
- Therapeutic strategies to prevent, reduce, or treat nutritional disorders and optimize the nutritional status of any age-related disease in different social and healthcare settings.
This Special Issue intends to publish original research articles, clinical trials, case–control studies, survival studies, cross-sectional studies, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses.
Dr. Mar Ruperto
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- clinical settings
- disease-related malnutrition
- diet
- elderly
- frailty
- functional tests
- healthy aging
- malnutrition
- nutritional risk
- nursing homes
- older adults
- quality of life
- sarcopenic obesity
- sarcopenia
- SPBB
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