21.10.2023 | Editorial
Social Isolation and Loneliness: Overlooked Therapeutic Targets of Anorexia of Aging?
verfasst von:
Juan Luis Sánchez-Sánchez, Y. Rolland
Erschienen in:
The journal of nutrition, health & aging
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Ausgabe 10/2023
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Excerpt
Anorexia of aging (AA) is defined as the reduction in appetite and food intake at older age (
1). It affects over 20% of older adults, with higher figures among those living in nursing homes and hospitalized (
2). Overt reductions in food intake may lead to derangements in the balance between quantity and quality of energy and nutrients ingested, and physiological demands, making AA a core prodrome of malnutrition (
3). Consequently, AA results in the development of detrimental outcomes at older age such immune dysfunction, weight loss, frailty, cognitive decline, sarcopenia and increased morbidity and mortality (
4‐
6). Given its impactful consequences, AA has been included among the “geriatrics giants” (
7). …