Nutritional assessment of homebound rural elderly.
Approximately one quarter of Americans aged 65 and older live in rural areas. Homebound rural elderly are a hard to reach, often poor and frail population. Failure to include homebound rural elderly in nutritional studies may bias representativeness of samples of elderly persons. This paper discusses some challenges in recruiting homebound older persons to participate in nutritional studies and in establishing quality control procedures in a field setting.
Smiciklas-Wright
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Department of Nutrition and Gerontology Center, Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802.
Lago
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Bernardo
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Beard
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D000368:Aged; D000886:Anthropometry; D006801:Humans; D015596:Nutrition Assessment; D009752:Nutritional Status; D012424:Rural Population; D014481:United States