Author(s): Gonçalves, Liliana Fátima Rodrigues ; Mata, Maria Augusta ; Monteiro, Ana Margarida ; Baptista, Gorete ; Pimentel, Maria Helena
Date: 2014
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/12373
Origin: Biblioteca Digital do IPB
Subject(s): Social resources; Elderly nutritional status
Portugal shows a very pronounced aging population. It lost population in every quinquennial age group between 0-29 years. To ages over 70 years the growth was about 26%. The total of old people living in Alto Trás-os-Montes is of 56966 and in the region of Alfândega da Fé is of 1660 (INE, 2011). To assess nutritional status of people with 75 years or more in the municipality of Alfândega da Fé; To know social resources and to check if there are correlations between nutritional status of the elderly and clinical and characterization variables of the studied population. A proportional and probabilistic sample of 109 old people of a total of 487, mainly female (62.4%; 68) was gathered from the database of users registered at the Health Centre of Alfândega da Fé. A Correlational and cross-sectional study was designed. It was applied the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) and also the Scale of Social Resources (OARS). From the total of 109 old people 28, 4% (31) are at risk of malnutrition and 71, 6% (78) present a normal nutritional status. From the total of subjects who participated in the study 40.4% (44) have adequate social resources, while more than a half 59.6% (65) have impaired social resources. We also concluded that social resources are independent from the nutritional status
