Nutritional Status of Older Adults in Al-Nasiriyah City

Abstract

A good nutrition for a person is essential to the good healthy body and prevents diseases and other health problems, the individual should be provided with knowledge about nutrition and the body nutritional requirement through the lifespan. Objective: To Assessing Nutritional status of Older Adults in Al-Nasiriyah City. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at the community based population, A purposive “non-probability” sample of (300) participants who were selected from the community based population, health care center, key card offices and Geriatric Homes in Thi-Qar for the period from February 15th 2018 to April 26th of 2018. The study results have indicated that more than half of participants are within 65–74 years-old (n=209; 69.7%), their gender is approximate; (n=155; 51.7%) for male; more than half of them are Illiterate (n=165; 55.0%); more than a third of the elderly are occupying Housewife and Retired equally (n=118; 39.3%), the majority of them live in urban areas (n= 219; 73.0%); less than half of them report that their monthly income is Enough (n=131; 43.7%), The result reveals that This table reveals that less than half of participant has a Risk of malnutrition (n=148; 49.3%).