and the estimated costs of health care doubling for this demographic, the promotion of health among the elderly is of utmost importance. There are obvious benefits of improving cardiovascular health, lowering blood pressure, reducing heart disease and …
COLLECTING waste, salting footways and caring for the elderly during the winter period are just a few topics to be discussed at a meeting this week.
Having family and loved ones in a nursing home can become a worrisome endeavor. Are they kept safe? Are they getting the proper care they need? How can you be sure they’re living comfortabl…
A GARDA action plan to make elderly residents feel safe in their homes and communities was rolled out across the country.
A survey released in July 2010 by the National Council on Aging (NCOA) indicated that only 17% of seniors across the country were able to correctly answer half of the 12 random questions about…
A FAMILY is fighting the forced deportation of a man who has been caring for his frail elderly mother for four years. Bangladesh-born Mohammed Ali Hossain (33), from Primrose Bank, came to Oldham in 2006 to care for his ill mother Habibun Nessa (70) who had her right leg amputated below the knee.
More than 80 percent of nursing home residents in United States are age 65 and above. Most of them are in critical care due to chronic illness or disability that requires supervision from nurses, aide…
COLLECTING waste, salting footways and caring for the elderly during the winter period are just a few topics to be discussed at a meeting this week.
It was front page news in the Monterey Herald today: senior citizens, many of which are on a fixed income, could see double digit hikes in their Medicare prescription premiums next year unless t…
Am J Clin Nutr. 2010 Oct; 92(4): 967-74
Sjögren P, Becker W, Warensjö E, Olsson E, Byberg L, Gustafsson IB, Karlström B, Cederholm T
BACKGROUND: Comparative studies on dietary patterns and long-term mortality are sparse. OBJECTIVE: The objective was to examine the relations between 10-y mortality and adherence to the World Health Organization dietary guidelines [Healthy Diet Indicator (HDI)], a Mediterranean-like diet, and a carbohydrate-restricted (CR) diet in elderly Swedish men. DESIGN: Dietary habits were determined by 7-d dietary records in a population-based longitudinal study of 924 Swedish men (age: 71 ± 1 y). The HDI score (-1 to 8 points), the Mediterranean Diet Score (MDS; 0-8 points), and the CR score (2-20 points) were calculated for each participant. Nonadequate reporters of energy intake were identified (n = 413). Mortality was registered during a median follow-up of 10.2 y. Cox proportional hazards regression, with multivariable adjustments, was used to determine the effects of adherence to each dietary pattern. RESULTS: Two hundred fifteen and 88 subjects died of all-cause and cardiovascular disease, respectively. In all individuals, risk relations to mortality for each SD increment in the scores were observed for only MDS, with an adjusted hazard ratio (HR) of 0.83 (95% CI: 0.70, 0.99). Among adequate dietary reporters (n = 511), adjusted HRs for each SD increment in scores were enhanced for MDS (ie, 0.71; 95% CI: 0.55, 0.92) for all-cause mortality and 0.63 (95% CI: 0.42, 0.96) for cardiovascular mortality. Corresponding HRs for CR diet score were 1.19 (95% CI: 0.97, 1.45) for all-cause mortality and 1.44 (95% CI: 1.03, 2.02) for cardiovascular mortality. CONCLUSION: Adherence to a Mediterranean-like dietary pattern reduced mortality, whereas adherence to a CR dietary pattern appeared to increase mortality in elderly Swedish men, especially when only adequate dietary reporters were considered.
