Nutritional and Functional Assessment of Hospitalized Elderly: Impact of Sociodemographic Variables

Table 4

Association between nutritional checklist (NCL) and Barthel self-care index (BSI) with age.

	NCL						BSI
	Good nutrition		Moderate risk		High risk		Range	Mean ± SD
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
Age
Young old (𝑁=164)	48	29.3	36	22.0	80	48.8	8–20	16.5±3.84
Old old (𝑁=28)	4	14.3	0	0.0	24	85.7	8–20	13.4±5.2
Oldest old (𝑁=8)	0	0	0	0	8	100	15–18	16.5±2.1
𝑋^2	10.4						3.65
𝑃	0.001						0.018