Nutritional status and risk of fall in hospitalized elderly
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https://doi.org/10.15448/2357-9641.2016.2.25983Keywords:
Aged, Elderly nutrition, Accidental falls, Nutritional status.Abstract
The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between nutritional status and the risk of falls in hospitalized elderly. This is a cross-sectional study with a sample of elderly (≥60 years), admitted to the geriatric inpatient unit of a teaching hospital, from May 2014 to September 2015. The variables were demographic data (gender and age), nutritional status the Mini Nutritional Assessment® and risk of fall through the Morse Fall Scale. There were 96 inpatients in this study, the average age was between 82.9±7.9 years (61 to 101 years), being 67.7% (65) from the female gender. According to the Mini Nutritional Assessment®, 53.2% (41) were malnourished, 35.1% (27) were at risk and 11.7% (9) were eutrophic. According to the Morse Fall Scale, 68.8% (66) of the patients had high risk of falling, 26% (25) had moderate risk and 5.2% (5) were at low risk. There was no association between the nutritional
status and the risk of fall, although it was observed that 59.6% of the malnourished elderly had high risk of falling and 47.6% at nutritional risk had also medium risk of falling. The elderly presented high risk of falls, besides high incidence of malnourishment. Despite that, there was no association between
nutritional status and risk of fall.
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