title: Nutrition and the elderly.
abstract: Increasingly, it is being recognized that the nutritional status of an elderly person is highly significant to that person's health and well-being. Nutritional status is likely to be affected by diseases and the management of those diseases. It is important that both patient and provider become more familiar with nutritional requirements and the best means of meeting those requirements.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D004032:Diet; D064420:Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions; D006801:Humans; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D010600:Pharmacology