Impact of a nutritional intervention to promote the consumption of healthy foods in older adults in the city of Cuenca, 2022-2023

Background: The elderly population has increased in recent years worldwide, regional and national. At this stage of life many older adults do not have adequate diet either due to lack of knowledge about food, which at low cost contribute to the necessary nutrients, or by physiological alterations. Objective: Evaluate the impact of nutritional intervention to promote the consumption of healthy foods in older adults in the city of Cuenca 2022-2023. METHODOLOGY: A Quasi-Experimental Study will be carried out in 173 older adults who attend the health centers of the Ministry of Public Health of the City of Cuenca. Demographic data will be collected, and nutritional status, global quality of food, food security with validated criteria will be determined. A nutritional intervention with food education and healthy menus with low -cost recipes will be developed. A technological application will be designed that provides nutritional advice and healthy menus to older adults. Subsequently, the impact of nutritional intervention will be evaluated. The data will be analyzed in the SPSS version 15.0 program. Descriptive statistics will be performed and to seek association relative risk (RR) will be used with a 95%confidence interval. Expected results: Nutritional intervention will improve the global quality of elderly, they will learn to feed better and will have low -cost healthy recipes, which will also be available in a technological application for use after the study period.

2nd UNIVERSITY COMPETITION FOR RESEARCH-LINKAGE PROJECTS