The journal of nutrition, health & aging
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J Nutr Health Aging · Mar 2014
Review Meta AnalysisDo not resuscitate orders and aging: impact of multimorbidity on the decision-making process.
The "Do Not Resuscitate" orders (DNR) are defined as advance medical directives to withhold cardiopulmonary resuscitation during cardiac arrest. Age-related multimorbidity may influence the DNR decision-making process. Our objective was to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis of published data examining the relationship between DNR orders and multimorbidity in older patients. ⋯ This systematic review and meta-analysis showed that DNR orders are positively associated with multimorbidity, and especially with three morbidities, which are cognitive impairment, cancer and stroke.
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J Nutr Health Aging · Mar 2014
Association between nutritional status (MNA®-SF) and frailty (SHARE-FI) in acute hospitalised elderly patients.
This study aimed to explore the association between the impaired nutritional status and frailty in acute hospitalised elderly patients by using two tools, the MNA®-SF (Mini Nutritional Assessment® short-form) and the SHARE-FI (Frailty Instrument for Primary Care of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe). ⋯ This study underlines the association and the overlap between frailty and impaired nutritional status. There is a high readiness to participate in a program to tackle the problems associated with malnutrition and frailty, especially in those, who would benefit most from it.
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J Nutr Health Aging · Mar 2014
Nutritional risk, nutritional status and incident disability in older adults. The FRADEA study.
To analyze if body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) as measures of nutritional status, and the Mini Nutritional Assessment Short Form (MNA-SF) as a nutritional risk measure are associated with increased risk of incident disability in basic activities of daily living (BADL) in a population based cohort of Spanish older adults. ⋯ Nutritional risk measured with the MNA-SF is associated with incident disability in BADL in older adults, while nutritional status measured with BMI or WC is not.