Nutritional support. Part of complex care for geriatric patients

Czech version

Authors: MUDr. Jitka Kurašová
Authors‘ workplace: II. interní klinika – gastroenterologická a geriatrická FN Olomouc
Published in: Geriatrie a Gerontologie 2020, 9, č. 4: 189-193
Category: Review Article

Overview

The issue of nutrition in geriatrics has its specifics. The ability to maintain a good nutritional status is reduced in the elderly. Seniors have small functional reserves due to a muscle hypotrophy, comorbidities and a hypomobility. Hospitalization of a such a patient contributes to the deepening of malnutrition, so the monitoring of the nutritional status and a rapid resolution of malnutrition by introducing the right diet or a nutritional support is becoming a standard part of the care for the elderly.

Keywords:

nutritional care – nutritional screening – nutritional condition – geriatrics – sarcopenia – malnutrition

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