Serial Comparison of the Nutritional Small evaluation in Institutionalized Elderly

DOI: 10.15343/0104-7809.20164003327333

Abstract

Old people represent the part of the population that increases more in the world, and, in Brazil, the population’s aging
happens in a progressive and fast way. In spite of being a natural process, aging submits the human body to many
changes and it can influence directly on the elderly’s nutritional status. Based on the above, this study aims to compare
the nutritional status using the elderly’s nutritional minivaluation in a long stay institution, in a town from Rio Grande do
Sul, between 2013 and 2014. This is a quantitative study with retrospective data analysis,, analyzing information from
2013 and 2014, extracted from the institutionalized elderly’s records using Miniavaliação Nutrition (MNA) as a research
instrument. The population of the research was formed by 36 old people, totaling a percentile of 66,7% of women. The
diagnosis got from the nutritional minivaluation observed that most institutionalized elderly showed nutritional risk in
2013 (61,1%) as well as in 2014 (58,3%). In relation to innutrition, in 2013 the percentage was 16,7% and in 2014 it
increased to 25%. In short,for being a group vulnerable nutricionalty, mainly for taking care of institutionalized seniors,
the seriate evaluations are covered of importance in the sense of proposing intervention for the cases with alterations
nutricionals.