Contemporary nutrition-based interventions to reduce risk of infection among elderly long-term care residents: A scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Elderly long-term care residents (ELTCRs) face considerable burden of infection, especially evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. The nutritional status of the host can influence susceptibility to infection by altering immune system integrity, therefore, nutrition-based interventions may be a viable complement to existing infection prevention measures.

Objective

This scoping review sought to identify nutritional interventions and factors that have the strongest evidence to benefit ELTCRs, and thus best poised for rigorous clinical trial evaluation and subsequent implementation.

Methods

A database search of OVID-Medline, OVID-Embase, and Web of Science was performed from 2011 to 2021 to identify nutritional intervention studies which attribute to changes in

SUBMITTER: Psihogios A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9345473 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature