[Nutritional status in older adults beneficiaries of a social programme with food component implemented in the city of Cordoba. Year 2000].
The nutritional status in older aged persons is the resulting of their living conditions and health. The demographic growing of this part of population is a challenge to health professionals, to know which are the characteristics of the normality in this stage of life.


OBJECTIVE
To know the nutritional status of the older aged persons beneficiaries of the ASOMA programme and identify from a qualitative focus, their food consumption standards.


METHODS
Descriptive, co-relational and transversal field study. Universe: 10214 persons from three different food assistance programmes. Sampling method: aleatory stratified respecting the universe proportion resulting n = 162 from ASOMA programme. Equation: Chumlea's was used to check height-taking reference from knee height and BMI.


METHODS
Observation and measurement (anthropometric)


CONCLUSIONS
The group has been represented into 2/3 parts of women n:108 and the age category older-young persons, low education level, temporary incomes always under $200 monthly. One quarter of them still work. The food consumption standard is signed by three basic foods: bread, oil and sugar and a frequent consumption of rice and chicken. Cow-meat, three-kind vegetables, pasta and "A" fruits appear as less frequents. The 83.9% of older-persons have a monotonous diet (weekly consumption < or = 5 different foods) that belong to the ASOMA programme. The middle value for BMI was 27.4 for the entire group, SD 5.33. The 24.1% of de population were situated in BMI values status that indicate normal nutritional. Analyzing the values by sex, men values were all around the middle value of the group. Among the women the values showed more dispersion. The BMI for women (middle value 28.4 with SD 5.88) was higher than for men (middle value 25.9 with SD 3.60). It was found positive co relation between BMI and body fat percentage and negative for BMI and body water percentage. Therefore was founded a negative significant co relation between the body fat and body water percentages.
Crosetto
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Cátedra Medicina Preventiva y Social, Faultad de Ciencias Médicas, UNC. SETmcrosetto@biomed.uncor.eduSET
Acosta
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Asaduroglu
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Henain
Y
Y
Picech
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V
Ojeda
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001118:Argentina; D001823:Body Composition; D015992:Body Mass Index; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004032:Diet; D005260:Female; D006285:Health Planning / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018673:Nutrition Policy; D009752:Nutritional Status; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors