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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Smith, Matthew Lee
• Bergeron, Caroline D
• Lachenmayr, Sue
• Eagle, Leigh Ann
• Simon, Judy R

Titel

A Brief Intervention for Malnutrition among Older Adults: Stepping Up Your Nutrition

Ist Teil von

• International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020-05, Vol.17 (10), p.3590

Ort / Verlag

Switzerland: MDPI

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Despite a multitude of nutritional risk factors among older adults, there is a lack of community-based programs and activities that screen for malnutrition and address modifiable risk among this vulnerable population. Given the known association of protein and fluid consumption with fall-related risk among older adults and the high prevalence of falls among Americans age 65 years and older each year, a brief intervention was created. Stepping Up Your Nutrition (SUYN) is a 2.5 h workshop developed through a public/private partnership to motivate older adults to reduce their malnutrition risk. The purposes of this naturalistic workshop dissemination were to: (1) describe the SUYN brief intervention; (2) identify participant characteristics associated with malnutrition risk; and (3) identify participant characteristics associated with subsequent participation in Stepping On (SO), an evidence-based fall prevention program. Data were analyzed from 429 SUYN participants, of which 38% ( = 163) subsequently attended SO. As measured by the SCREEN II , high and moderate malnutrition risk scores were reported among approximately 71% and 20% of SUYN participants, respectively. Of the SUYN participants with high malnutrition risk, a significantly larger proportion attended a subsequent SO workshop (79.1%) compared to SUYN participants who did not proceed to SO (65.8%) (χ = 8.73, = 0.013). Findings suggest SUYN may help to identify malnutrition risk among community-dwelling older adults and link them to needed services like evidence-based programs. Efforts are needed to expand the delivery infrastructure of SUYN to reach more at-risk older adults.