A Survey and Analysis on the State of Nutrition of the Elderly at Nursing Home in a Suburban Area
HAN Weibin
SUN Fengxian
Abstract：Objective To explore the nutritional status of the elderly at nursing home and the related factors so as to provide the evidence for improving the nutritional status of the elderly. Methods Cluster random sampling was employed, and two nursing homes were randomly selected for this investigation. The elderly who aged 60 years and over were surveyed by MNA-SF questionnaires in a suburban area of Shanghai in April 2013, and with the chi-square tests and ordinal regression analysis. The influence factors of the nutritional status were analyzed. Results 33 of the 105 subjects exhibited malnutrition, accounting for 31.4%. Different diet(χ2=4.131, P<0.05), disease(χ2=3.919, P<0.05), medical payments(χ2=4.242, P<0.05) of the state of nutrition of the elderly differed signiifcantly. Ordinal regression analysis indicated that age and medical payments were the important factors of malnutrition of the elderly at nursing home. Conclusions The nutritional status of the elderly at nursing home was not optimistic in the outer suburbs. It should cause the attention of the society. The nursing home should be according to the old people’s diet and characteristics to adjust the dietary structure and strengthen the psychological health education.
Keywords：nursing homethe elderlystate of nutritioninlfuence factor
Publication Date：2013-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 31-33 )