Old people with multiple chronic diseases must pay attention to these things.
The elderly need to receive continuous treatment or diseases that affect the function of daily life, such as decreased body function, low immune funct……
With the increase of age
the number of comorbidities also increases
and the prevalence rate of comorbidities is as high as 80% in patients aged 80 years and above.[4
Among people over 65 years old worldwide
the prevalence rate of common diseases is 40% to 56%.[3
Nutrition is very important to the elderly with common diseases.1. Comorbidity and malnutrition-many chronic diseases have problems such as excessive energy consumption
poor nutrition absorption or inadequate intake
which eventually lead to malnutrition. Comorbidities further increase the risk of malnutrition and are not easy to detect
making people weaker and weaker in the process of "boiling frogs in warm water" and finally vulnerable. Malnutrition is also a "chronic disease" in essence. The World Health Organization has made it clear that malnutrition was
is and will continue to be the leading cause of death worldwide.2. The harm of malnutrition in the elderly with comorbid diseases-malnutrition will lead to muscle loss
decreased mobility
easy to fall
Fracture
cognitive decline and other problems in the elderly. At the same time
malnutrition can also affect disease control
aggravate the disease and promote the decline of functional status (disability
inadvertent weight loss of 5% within 3 months or 10% of 6 months
body mass index & lt
20 kg/m2)
