Avaliação do estado nutricional de idosos residentes em uma instituição asilar da cidade de Marialva, Estado do Paraná - DOI: 10.4025/actascihealthsci.v28i2.1066

Maria de Lourdes Brandão Assis Navarro; Rose Mari Bennemann

doi:10.4025/actascihealthsci.v28i2.1066

Evaluation of the nutritional condition of the elderly at a nursing home in the city of Marialva, State of Paraná - DOI: 10.4025/actascihealthsci.v28i2.1066

Authors

Maria de Lourdes Brandão Assis Navarro Cesumar Author
Rose Mari Bennemann CESUMAR Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4025/actascihealthsci.v28i2.1066

Keywords:

envelhecimento, instituição asilar, nutrição

Abstract

Due to the hasty increase of the world’s elderly population in the last decades, aging becomes target of some studies, challenging research on Nutritional Science. This research aimed to evaluate the nutritional condition of the elderly at a Nursing Home in the city of Marialva, State of Paraná. 24 elderly of both genders with average age of 72.4 were evaluated. Among them, the male sex prevailed (58%), unlike the overall Brazilian reality. This transverse study used primary data. The evaluation of nutritional condition was effectuated by means of anthropometric method. It was verified that most of the elderly people, in every age group, presented appropriate weight evaluated regarding Index Body Mass (IBM) and circumference of the arm. The same was verified regarding adiposity, excepting 60-69 age group, whose majority presented excess of weight. As for muscular circumference of the arm, most of the elderly people, in every age group, presented, in every age group, presented appropriate index muscular mass, showing low nutritional risk.

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Author Biography

Rose Mari Bennemann, CESUMAR

Graduada em Nutrição pela Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (1981), Mestre (2002) e doutoranda em Saúde Pública pela Faculdade de Saúde Pública (FSP) da Universidade de São Paulo (USP).Atualmente é professora titular do Centro Universitário de Maringá. Ministra aulas nas disciplinas de Nutrição Social (Saúde Pública, Epidemiologia), Nutrição nos ciclos de vida (Nutrição em Geriatria), atuando também como orientadora da disciplina de estágio em Nutriçao Social (Unidades Básicas de Saúde e Escolas). Currículo Lattes

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Published

2008-03-13

Issue

Vol. 28 No. 2 (2006)

Section

Nutrition

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Brandão Assis Navarro, M. de L., & Bennemann, R. M. (2008). Evaluation of the nutritional condition of the elderly at a nursing home in the city of Marialva, State of Paraná - DOI: 10.4025/actascihealthsci.v28i2.1066. Acta Scientiarum. Health Sciences, 28(2), 129-135. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascihealthsci.v28i2.1066