الفهرس 
NUTRITION AND AGINGOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
 |  | from | 113 |  |  |
| | | from | 113 | | |
Abstract
Elderly home play an important role in achieving better nutritional status among the residents through many actions such as, providing comfortable environment for them, encouraging eating in dining room, putting refrigerators inside residents’ rooms, and ensuring food varieties per week. Higher nursing staffing levels were associated with decreased likelihood of malnutrition.
Anthropometric measures was an effective tool to assess nutritional status of elderly homes’ residents, and this current study gave a good idea about effectiveness of these anthropometric measures in screening and diagnosing malnutrition in elderly homes’ residents in Cairo.
It can be concluded that (BMI ≤19.5 , TSF≤10.5 , MAC ≤24.5 , MAMC ≤22.5) had high diagnostic performance in detecting malnouritrition in Egyptian elderly homes’ residents.
Elderly homes care professionals may use this study to inform quality improvement efforts to targeting individuals at high risk for poor nutrition in their facilities.
Keywords: Mini Nutritional Assessment- Lean body mass- Gastro Intestinal Tract- Geriatric Depression Scale- Body mass index- malnutrition – elderly Egypt