Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Elderly
- Definition
- Individuals over 65 years
old whom many are
pensioners and some have
functional impairments.
- Dietary Needs and Meal Planning
- Nutritional Needs
- Due to a reduction in physical
activity, enregy requirements may
decrease gradually after the age of
50 in women and 60 in men.
- Protein requirements
decrease for men but
continue to increase
slightly for women.
- Requirement for vitamins remain
the same but an elderly person's
diet is more likely to be deficient in
Vitamin C (if elderly have struggle
peeling fruit and vegetables), D (if
elderly are housebound so don't
expose their bodies to sunlight) and
Folate (for elderly people who dont
consume enough green leafy
vegetables).
- Adequate intakes of
calcium should be
included in the diet for
good bone health to
prevent porous bones
leading to osteoporosis
- Services
- Wiltshire Farm Foods
- Cater for elderly being the
UK’s leading frozen meals
home delivery service
- Meals On wheels
- deliver meals to
individuals at home
who are unable to
purchase or prepare
their own meals
- Age UK
- Helps the elderly have
access to the products
and services they need
at a price they can afford
- Health Related Illnesses
- Anaemia
- The condition of
having a
lower-than-normal
number of red
blood cells-
diminishing the
capatiy of the
blood to carry
oxygen.
- Can occur due to poor
absorption and blood loss as a
result of injury
- Osteoporosis
- a disorder in which the bones become
increasingly porous, brittle, and subject to
fracture, owing to loss of calcium
- Diabetes
- Elderly are
more prone to
developing
Type 2
Diabetes
- In the UK one in 20
people aged over 65 and
one in five people aged
over 85 have diabetes.
- General Information
- As invididuals get older we
tend to become less active
therefore energy expenditure
decreases as we live a more
sedentary lifestyle
- Elderly are the fastest growing sector in society