Valoración del riesgo nutricional de adultos mayores en “MIESpacio de Sabiduría” del Ministerio de Inclusión Económica y Social. Cuenca 2017

Abstract

GENERAL OBJECTIVE To assess nutritional risk of autonomous non-institutionalized older adults attending "MIESpacio de Sabiduría" of the Ministry of Social and economic Inclusion. METHODOLOGY This study is a cross-sectional descriptive study was designed to describe the characteristics of the specific population, fulfilling the criteria of inclusion and exclusion. The universe was represented by 108 older adults, in which nutritional risk was assessed by applying the polls: Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA); index of summary of Physical Activity Survey YALE, and registration forms that includes information such as socio-demographic, economic status, cardiovascular risk and presence of chronic diseases characteristics. RESULTS The population was represented by 78% female and 22% of men, the prevalence of nutritional risk was a percentage of 78.7%, compared to a normal adequate nutritional status of 19.4% and malnutrition with a value of 1.9%. Also it was demonstrated the Association of nutritional risk factors such as the level of instruction, demonstrating increased risk in incomplete statement or without instruction with 58.2%; cardiovascular risk with 55.6%: socio-economic level with low resources with 41.7%; sedentary lifestyle with 61.1% and presence of chronic diseases with 53.7%.