Nutritional Status Among Elderly in Ambulatory Care Setting
Abstract: Nutritional status
is a final outcome from a balance between food intake and body’s needs of the
nutrients. Elderly is people whose age more than 60 years old. In Indonesia,
elderly population has increased. Its phenomena is also known as population
aging. Population aging is related to malnutrition in elderly. Malnutrition is
defined as the insufficient, excessive or imbalanced consumption of
nutrients.The objective of this study was to describe the nutritional status
among elderly outpatients in geriatrics clinic of Dr. Hasan Sadikin General
Hospital Bandung.
Methods: This study was a descriptive cross-sectional study that used
primary data in geriatrics clinic Dr. Hasan Sadikin General Hospital Bandung
from September 2013 to October 2013. The sampling method was convenience
sampling. This study was done with 43
elderly ( women, n=27 and men, n=16) outpatients.The nutritional status was
classified by the questionnaire of Mini Nutritional Assessment into malnourished,
risk of malnutrition and without malnutrition (adequate). After collecting the
data, it was analyzed by Microsoft Excel in presenting the proportion of the
elderly nutritional status.
Results: Among all the respondents, 27 (63%) respondents had adequate
nutrition and 16 (37%) respondents had risk of malnutrition. There was no
respondent who had malnutrition (undernutrition).
Conclusions: Majority of elderly outpatients in geriatrics clinic Dr.
Hasan Sadikin General Hospital had adequate nutrition.
Keywords: Aging, elderly,
malnutrition, nutritional status
Author: Karina Nurizky, Putri
Teesa Radhiyanti Santoso, Muhammad Apriandi
Journal Code: jpkedokterangg170128
