Nutritional status of elderly people living in nursing home and some related factors

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The aim of this research is to evaluate the nutritional status of elderly people residing in a nursing home and to examine the relationship of the results with chronic diseases. The sampling of the descriptive and cross-sectional research consists of 65 nursing home residents. The data of the research were collected through the Personal Information Form, Mini Nutritional Assessment Test (MNA), Hand Grip Strength Test, Activities of Daily Living Scale and Geriatric Depression Scale. In the analysis of the data, p 0.05). MNA scores of the participants who had depression were found to be significantly low (p<0.05). As the dependency level in the activities of daily living increased, hand grip strength (r=-362, p˂0.01) and MNA scores (r=-596, p˂0.01) decreased significantly.