Case Study: Nutrition and Dietary Needs of Older Adults

This report focuses on the nutritional needs of older adults aged 70 and over. It highlights the common challenges such as the weakening of the immune system, poor wound healing, muscle weakness, and decreased bone mass, which can increase the risk of falls and fractures. The report mentions that the nutritional needs of older adults often involve an increased intake of certain nutrients, despite a decline in metabolic rate and energy requirements per body weight. The report references several sources, including books and journals, to support the analysis of nutritional issues and dietary requirements for older adults, emphasizing the importance of addressing these needs to maintain health and well-being. The report also mentions the importance of adequate nutrition to prevent malnutrition, a common concern among the elderly population.

OLDER ADULTS
AGED 70 OR
OLDER
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MAIN BODY
Selected group for this project is older age people who are aged 70.
There are many different type of nutritious issue which are faced by older age people
initial stage itself. Some of the common nutritional issue are faced by elderly people are weak
immune system, which generally used to increase the risk of infection, Poor wound healing and
Muscle weakness and decreased bone mass, which results in fall and fractures. Some time also
used to increase the risk of death for the individual above age of 70 (Mazzola and et.al., 2019).
It has been found out that in this stage nutritious generally means milk which is consumed.
Generally this age of the person find it difficult to satisfy the need of nutrious in older people.
They are generally vulnerable in context of malnutrition; another reason behind the same is
identified that mass and basal metabolic rate of the individual used to decline as person used to
decline with the age. Also, person energy requirement per kilometre of body weight is also
reduced (Clegg and Williams, 2018).
At the same time it has been also highlighted as the person used to grow in the age
amount of nutritious requirement also used to increase for the older age people. There are some
nutrienents may be reduced but as a whole requirement of nutrients used to increases. Generally
this type of disease which are generally suffered by older person are the reason of dietary
factors, some of this has been occur sue to infancy of different nutrition’s in them (Bernstein and
Munoz, 2019).
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Clegg, M. E. and Williams, E. A., 2018. Optimizing nutrition in older people. Maturitas. 112.
pp.34-38.
Bernstein, M. and Munoz, N., 2019. Nutrition for the older adult. Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Mazzola, P and et.al., 2019. A Sociological Observational Study on Nutrition in Older Italians:
Between Tradition and New Models.
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