PRONUTRISENIOR: a holistic approach to the older adults living in the community; a rationale and methodology

• Autor(a) principal: Afonso, Cláudia
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Poínhos, Rui, Sorokina, Anzhela, Oliveira, Bruno M. P. M., Sousa, M., Fonseca, L., Correia, Flora, Franchini, Bela, Pereira, Bárbara, Monteiro, Ana, Almeida, Maria Daniel Vaz de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/108476
• topic: Ciências da Saúde, Ciências médicas e da saúde; Health sciences, Medical and Health sciences

PRONUTRISENIOR is a holistic approach that considers older adults as part of their environment, in order to better assist health professionals, caregivers and other professionals to monitor their nutritional status and thus reduce malnutrition in this population group. The education and empowerment of professionals were preceded by an assessment of the community and its environment. Such information was subsequently incorporated into the educational and informational materials to support training and empowerment programs. This paper presents the project rationale, describes the methods applied to attain the objectives defined within the scope of the older adults living in its environment, and presents general data on the studied population and sample.