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Changes in nutritional status of elderly people are brought about by alterations in their socio-economic circumstances, which often occur about the time of retirement, and by the increasing incidence of disease and disability which lead to changes in dietary intake, absorption and metabolism of nutrients. The effects of disease and disabilities become more marked during the second half of the eighth decade. Thus, although frank malnutrition has been largely eliminated from most sections of our population, it is still found amongst the elderly as a consequence of the operation of these factors.
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Exton-Smith, A.N., Overstall, P.W. (1979). Nutrition. In: Geriatrics. Guidelines in Medicine, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7191-5_9
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