The Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) after 20 years of research and clinical practice

E-ISSN： 1469-9036|17|4|293-310

ISSN： 0959-2598

Source： Reviews in Clinical Gerontology, Vol.17, Iss.4, 2007-11, pp. : 293-310

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Abstract

Nutritional assessment in older people to detect malnutrition or risk of malnutrition is essential to avoid adverse nutrition-related outcomes. Poor nutritional status appears to be a major contributing factor for poor prognosis in malnourished individuals. Nowadays, nutritional assessment is considered to be one of the domains which should be evaluated in comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA). CGA is a comprehensive assessment tool with the capacity of detecting impairments in older people and, at the same time, suggest interventions. Although many assessment tools are proposed, those used in CGA are not widely agreed. After 20 years of clinical practice and research, the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) seems to be the tool most widely accepted by health carers and patients for the assessment of nutritional impairment in CGA.