Can Nutrition Contribute to a Reduction in Sarcopenia, Frailty, and Comorbidities in a Super-Aged Society?

Nutrients. 2023 Jun 30;15(13):2991. doi: 10.3390/nu15132991.

Abstract

Many countries are facing the advent of super-aging societies, where sarcopenia and frailty will become pertinent problems. The prevalence of comorbidities is a major problem in countries with aged populations as elderly people suffer from various diseases, such as diabetes, heart failure, chronic kidney disease and dementia. All of these diseases are associated with sarcopenia and frailty, and they frequently cause falls, fractures, and a decline in activities of daily living. Fractures in the elderly people are associated with bone fragility, which is influenced by diabetes and chronic kidney disease. Nutritional support for chronic disease patients and sarcopenic individuals with adequate energy and protein intake, vitamin D supplementation, blood glucose level management for individuals with diabetes, obesity prevention, nutritional education for healthy individuals, and the enlightenment of society could be crucial to solve the health-related problems in super-aging societies.

Keywords: chronic kidney disease (CKD); comorbidity; dementia; diabetes; elderly people; frailty; heart failure; oral nutritional supplement (ONS); sarcopenia; vitamin D.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Activities of Daily Living
  • Aged
  • Diabetes Mellitus*
  • Frail Elderly
  • Frailty* / complications
  • Frailty* / epidemiology
  • Frailty* / prevention & control
  • Humans
  • Renal Insufficiency, Chronic* / complications
  • Renal Insufficiency, Chronic* / epidemiology
  • Sarcopenia* / complications
  • Sarcopenia* / epidemiology
  • Sarcopenia* / prevention & control

Grants and funding

This research received no external funding.