A National Survey of Nutritional Risk Among the ElderlyFood Research and Action Center, 1987 - Diet in disease Abstract: This survey of the nutritional status of the elderly is based on 3602 responses by senior citizens to a questionnaire distributed during December, 1984 and January, 1985. In this self-administrated survey, affirmative answers to the "risk questions" indicated a greater chance that the respondent lacked a component of a healthy diet. Results: 35 percent responded that they eat less than three meals per day, 18.1 percent indicated "I do not have enough money to buy the food I need," 20.2 percent had lost weight without trying over the last month, and 21.7 percent gave responses which indicated nutritional risk to five or more of the survey questions. Recommendations are included |
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