EVALUACIÓN DE LA DIETA EN RELACIÓN AL REQUERIMIENTO NUTRICIONAL DE LOS ADULTOS MAYORES, COMEDOR GERIÁTRICO, “VICENTE DE LA CRUZ “, ANDRÉS DE VERA, PORTOVIEJO. JUNIO - NOVIEMBRE 2012

Abstract

In order to determine the diet in relation to nutritional requirements of the elderly in the nursing “Vicente de la Cruz” Andrés de Vera Portoviejo city, and identify food habits and food for a guide to the requirements nutrition so that they can have a good quality of life, there was a non-experimental research and descriptive transversal study the universe being 81 elderly patients who come to the dining room “Vicente de la Cruz” in the parish Andres de Vera, the run time was 1 year according to Regulation graduation UTM was used unstructured observation as a data collection technique. Among the most significant results can be stated that the highest percentage of older adults who attend the dining are masculine, the age group of 60-65 years, widowed marital status, 38% are overweight nutritional status according to BMI, physical activity is scarce. Of the most common diseases are hypertension, diabetes, osteoporosis and arthritis in lower frequency, most abused drugs are antihypertensive, hypoglycemic and anti-inflammatory. Regarding the 90% food ingested 3 meals a day, breakfast lunch, dinner, among the foods they eat are the vegetables by 95% of the population once a day, the oils and fats of 3-4 times per day, proteins like egg, meat and fish more than 5 times a week, and once per day. It is striking how little water intake by almost 80% reported consuming one to two bottles of water. Given these results were prosed and delivered manual diets for the elderly, and education gave to the people working in the nursing home dining.