Health and care guidelines
Download our guidelines on good nutrition in later life.
Nutrition
Good nutrition in later life (94 kb)
Everyone needs a healthy diet to keep up their energy level, reduce the risk of chronic diseases and fight infections, whatever their age. However, many older people do not have a healthy diet.
Many older people become malnourished because their food intake does not give them the energy or nutrients they need. Being malnourished makes a person weak, tired and more at risk of developing infections.
These guidelines, aimed at programme managers and people working with older people, discuss older people's nutritional needs, why they may not be eating well, and what can be done to help.
More resources:
Ageways 76: Food and nutrition (1.4 mb)
Keep fit for life: Meeting the nutritional needs of older persons
