Estado nutricional de adultos mayores beneficiarios de un programa social con componente alimentario implementado en la ciudad de Córdoba

Abstract

 The nutritional status in older aged persons is the resulting of their living conditions and health. The demographic growing of this part of population is a cahllenge to health professionals, to know which are the characteristics of the normality in this state of life. 

Objetive: To know the nutritional status of the older aged persons beneficiaries of the ASOMA programme and identify from a qualitative focus, their food consumption standars. Material and method: Descriptive,  co- relational and transversal field study. Universe: 10214 persons from three different food assistence programmes. Sampling method: aleatory stratyfied respecting the universe proportion resulting n=162 from ASOMA programme. Equation: Chumlea'a was used to check height - talking referencen from knee height and BMI. Techniques: Observatiion and measurment (ahthropometric) Conclusions: The group has been represented into 2/3 parts of women n:108 and the age category older young persons, low education level, temporary incomes always under $200 monthly. One quarter of them still work. The food consumition standard is sined by three basic  foods: bread, oil and sugar ans frequent consumtion of rice and chicken. Cow-meat, three, - kind vegetables, pasta and "A" fruits apear as less frequents. The 83.9% of olderpersons have a monotonous diet (weekly consumption <5 diferents food)that belong to the ASOMA programme. The middle value for BMI was 27.4 for the entire group, SD 5.33. The 24.1% of the population were situated in BMI value status that indicate normal nutritional. Analyzing the values by sex, men values werw all around the middle value of the group. Among the women the values showed more dispersion. The BMI fo women (middle value 25.9 with SD 3.60). It was found positive co realtion between BMI and body fat porcentage and negative for BMI and body water porcentage. Therefore was founded a negative sidnificant co relation between the body fat and body water porcentages.