Poor Nutrition of Elderly Patient in Acute Hospital (NHS)

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Introduction

The reduced nutrition level in elderly hospitalized patients usually develop nutrition deficiency in the form of micro nutrients, for instance, vitamin and mineral deficiency and other macronutrients deficiency characterized mainly by protein deficiency. The importance of this paper is to find the occurrence of protein such as energy malnutrition among elderly patients admitted in an acute hospital might vary on different things like population, it set and might use screening tools. It is significant to evaluate the rate of poor nutrition in elderly patient admitted in acute hospital.  Nonetheless, the poor diet found in elderly population for hospital setting patients appears to be as global problem, and it often linked with increased morbidity, mortality, and more extended hospital stay. In acute hospitals of UK, the occurrence of poor nutrition in patients admitted to the medical ward was estimated about the 34% and comparable occurrence level of about 38.7% which was reportedly admitted in hospital aged over 65 years in the various multinational study (Chan et al., 2019).

This paper will discuss about elderly patients poor nutritional levels. Moreover, the malnutrition is present in the context of deficiency in energy and protein with or without weakness of micronutrients. Therefore, such defects are linked with a decrease in the body functioning of the elderly and associated clinical outcomes. Aging is the most typical factor that contributes to losing weight. However, the amount of weight loss will be variable. Thus, this paper will help to find reduction in weight is due to a decrease in muscle function, cognitive function, bone mass, and dysfunction of the immune system (McGinley, 2017).

Background

The significance to identify and recognize the poor nutritional health status is that it can enable impairment of drug metabolism and the treatment, which harms nutritional status. It can be due to reduced appetite, physiological dysfunction, and the biological factor which comprises delay in a decreased sense of smell, taste, and gastric emptying. Some other factors which are related to pathological changes (such as chronic diseases) and other psychological illnesses which  contributes to malnutrition among the  hospitalized elderly patients. The reduced dietary intake of patients among the elderly population in the hospital comprises of acute illness, low mood, and their effect of medication (Roberts et al., 2017)………………………………………..continued