High prevalence of malnutrition among elderly veterans in home based primary care

• DOI: 10.1007/s12603-017-0918-z
• Publication Date: 2017-04-24T07:13:06Z
• Authors: Aung Zaw Win; C. Ceresa; K. Arnold; T.A. Allison
• Keywords: Male; Risk; 2. Zero hunger; Primary Health Care; Malnutrition; Nutritional Status; Diet Surveys; Home Care Services; United States; 3. Good health; United States Department of Veterans Affairs; 03 medical and health sciences; Nutrition Assessment; 0302 clinical medicine; Prevalence; Humans; Female; Geriatric Assessment; Aged; Veterans

Elderly Veterans enrolled in VA Home Based Primary Care (HBPC) programs suffer from many diseases including malnutrition. Nutrition screening tools exist the system but they are inconsistently utilized across ambulatory care and neither research validated nor comparable with non-VA populations. The Mini-Nutritional Assessment short-form (MNA-SF) has been international studies a variety of settings. primary aim this study was to find prevalence malnutrition among HBPC programs. secondary objective determine feasibility adopting nutrition tool (Mini-Nutritional (MNA-SF)).