Abstract
A nutrition education program was developed to supplement and possibly enhance antihypertensive therapy for the hypertensive elderly. Nutrition lessons were presented once a week over an eight week period with an attempt to increase dietary intakes of calcium, magnesium, and potassium and to decrease sodium. In order to determine retention of nutrition lesson content, an additional eight-week phase, without nutrition education, was evaluated. Thc success of the nutrition education program was determined by comparison of control and experimental groups; pretest-posttest scores, selected anthropometric determinants and blood parameters, blood pressure readings, and dietary intakes. Results indicate nutrition education can be a positive influence on dietary intakes of hypertensive elderly and may offer more optimistic hopes for the border-line hypertensive elderly not yet on antihypertensivc therapy.
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