O Mundo da Saúde (Jul 2016)
Serial Comparison of the Nutritional Small evaluation in Institutionalized Elderly
Abstract
Old people represent the part of the population that increases more in the world, and, in Brazil, the population’s aging happens in a progressive and fast way. In spite of being a natural process, aging submits the human body to many changes and it can influence directly on the elderly’s nutritional status. Based on the above, this study aims to compare the nutritional status using the elderly’s nutritional minivaluation in a long stay institution, in a town from Rio Grande do Sul, between 2013 and 2014. This is a quantitative study with retrospective data analysis,, analyzing information from 2013 and 2014, extracted from the institutionalized elderly’s records using Miniavaliação Nutrition (MNA) as a research instrument. The population of the research was formed by 36 old people, totaling a percentile of 66,7% of women. The diagnosis got from the nutritional minivaluation observed that most institutionalized elderly showed nutritional risk in 2013 (61,1%) as well as in 2014 (58,3%). In relation to innutrition, in 2013 the percentage was 16,7% and in 2014 it increased to 25%. In short,for being a group vulnerable nutricionalty, mainly for taking care of institutionalized seniors, the seriate evaluations are covered of importance in the sense of proposing intervention for the cases with alterations nutricionals.
