Nutritinal status and social resources of an old population in the Northeast of Trás-os-Montes
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Portugal shows a very pronounced aging population.
It lost population in every quinquennial age group between
0-29 years. To ages over 70 years the growth was about 26%. The
total of old people living in Alto Trás-os-Montes is of 56966 and in
the region of Alfândega da Fé is of 1660 (INE, 2011). To assess nutritional status of people with 75 years
or more in the municipality of Alfândega da Fé; To know social
resources and to check if there are correlations between nutritional
status of the elderly and clinical and characterization variables of
the studied population. A proportional and probabilistic sample of
109 old people of a total of 487, mainly female (62.4%; 68) was
gathered from the database of users registered at the Health
Centre of Alfândega da Fé. A Correlational and cross-sectional study
was designed. It was applied the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA)
and also the Scale of Social Resources (OARS).
From the total of 109 old people 28, 4% (31) are at risk
of malnutrition and 71, 6% (78) present a normal nutritional
status. From the total of subjects who participated in the study
40.4% (44) have adequate social resources, while more than a
half 59.6% (65) have impaired social resources. We also concluded
that social resources are independent from the nutritional status
