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Assessment of nutritional status of the elderly population living in rest home and at home
SVATOŠOVÁ, Tereza
The bachelor thesis with the title "Assesment of Nutritional Status of the Elderly Population Living in Rest Home and at Home" is concerning problems related to nutrition at old age. The theoretical part of the thesis is focused on the definition of the old age and the changes of an old body associated with nutrition, and also on needs of energy and of individual nutrients. The thesis is also concerning interactions between food and drugs, nutrition disorders at old age and possibilities how to investigate and assess nutritional state. The experimental group was created by 6 elderly people, 3 people were living in Rest Homes for the Elderly and 3 people were living at home. They were all over 65 years of age. The goal was to investigate their nutritional state and to compare the results we received from people living in Rest Homes for the Elderly and people living at home. There was chosen qualitative research form of investigation. We firstly received basic information that concerned anthropometrical data, personal health anamnesis, family anamnesis, etc. in form of semi structured interview. We recorded answers obtained from interviewees' 1 week nutritional questionnaires. There are recorded data of each elderly person received during the interview in the practical part of the thesis, there is also calculated recommended intake of energy and nutrients, calculation of food pattern received from the software program "Nutriservis Professional" and in the end, there are carried out some recommendations. We can see from the results that the elderly fail to have appropriate fluids intake, they do not have enough vegetables, legumes, fish and fish products. Investigated elderly people preferred fats to carbohydrates. However, it is not possible to conclude explicitly based on found results that the nutritional state in the interviewed people from the Rest Home for Elderly is better than in people living at home. But the nutritional patterns of elderly people from Rest Homes for Elderly had better choice of appropriate food and meals were rarely repeated. It is necessary for the Elderly to receive more information on the nutrition so that they can realize that also at their old age it is important to eat proper diet with sufficient quantity so that it will meet the requirements concerning their actual needs. The research result and recommendation can be used by organizations that take care of the elderly people and also by the elderly themselves as the source of information about nutrition and proper diet.
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The Specificity of Geriatric Patients' Nutritional Needs
Parmová, Eva ; Starnovská, Tamara (advisor) ; Bielaková, Katarína (referee)
The final thesis The Specificity of Geriatric Patients' Nutritional Needs deals with the issue of nutrition at old age and foremost of nutrition of geriatric individuals. These form a special group of patients. The main meaning of this thesis is to report on the investigated issue. This is nowadays due to the ri- sing number of the geriatric patients a very current topic. The thesis has two parts - the theoretical and the practical one. The theoretical part deals with the elucidation of the key terms, description of the diet systems and outlining of the demographical development in the Czech Republic. The thesis also describes the hospital bed capacities for geriatric patients. The practical part compares the approaches to the geriatric patients nutrition described in the domes- tic publications and the diets really provided to the geriatric patients in the Czech Republic. For these pur- poses, two geriatric workplaces were chosen - Clinic of Geriatrics of General University Hospital in Prague and The Department of Geriatrics at the Thomayer Hospital. The focus of the comparison was mainly on the values related to the intake of energy, proteins, saccharides, fats, vitamin D and calcium, iron and zinc mine- rals. In the conclusion and discussion the results of the practical part are summarized and...
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