Nutritional assessment of homebound rural elderly
Smiciklas-Wright, H.; Lago, D.J.; Bernardo, V.; Beard, J.L.
Journal of Nutrition 120(Suppl 11): 1535-1537
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0022-3166 PMID: 2243301 Document Number: 354518
Approximately one quarter of Americans aged 65 and older live in rural areas. Homebound rural elderly are a hard to reach, often poor and frail population. Failure to include homebound rural elderly in nutritional studies may bias representativeness of samples of elderly persons. This paper discusses some challenges in recruiting homebound older persons to participate in nutritional studies and in establishing quality control procedures in a field setting.