• Feeding of the elder.
• Nutrition of the elder.
• Malnutrition of the elder.

The diet in the biggest persons is different from the habitual thing due to different determinants that force to personalize the same one as for characteristics (quality) and needs (quantity).

For age questions in almost all the elders there exist problems of mobility of the digestive tract, there are difficulties on having swallowed, there take place major quantity of gases and an increase of the constipation.
The secretions of the stomach diminish and for it the acidity is minor what it delays the digestion and diminishes the absorption of vitamins (B12).

The problems of the teething and the decrease of the salivation determine a dry mouth that forces to modify the type of food so that they could be consumed and swallow easily.
It is frequent that determinants exist in the feeding for the decrease in the visual keenness, the taste and the smell. This can determine a varied and balanced feeding.

The physical incapabilities to do the buy or to cook there is a very important factor to be considered in this feeding, since the quantity can turn out to be influenced only by this variable.
The decrease of the personal income produces an alteration in his food buy both in his quality and in the quantity of the same ones.

The psychological problems as the social isolation and the existence of a depression, they determine often an anorexia or lacking in desire of eating.

Other problems are organic as it can be the presence of a diabetes, the hypertension, the cardiac problems, rheumatisms, hepatic alterations, the cancer, or without much ado the association of small problems associate all of them produce food imbalances that partly it owes to itself to not well elaborated medical advices.

The feeding in the aged debit of having a sufficient caloric content between 1900 and 2100 calories a day. Of these there must be a balance between proteins, fats and habitual carbohydrates in the feeding. In addition to containing sufficiently contribution of vitamins and calcium.

To control enough fibre quantity, liquids and as I support the solar exhibition that produces the vitamin formation D necessary for the use of the calcium of the diet.