Approaches to Address the Anemia Challenge.

Anemia is a multifactorial condition; approaches to address it must recognize that the causal factors represent an ecology consisting of internal (biology, genetics, and health) and external (social/behavioral/demographic and physical) environments. In this paper, we present an approach for selecting interventions, followed by a description of key issues related to the multiple available interventions for prevention and reduction of anemia. We address interventions for anemia using the following 2 main categories: 1) those that address nutrients alone, and, 2) those that address nonnutritional causes of anemia.

Water homeostasis, frailty and cognitive function in the nursing home.

Objective: - To develop and test a practical clinical method to assess frailty in nursing homes; - To investigate the relationship between cognitive status of the elderly and the balance between water compartments of their body composition.

Design And Subjects: Cross-sectional study, conducted at two nursing homes in Boston-MA.

Methods: Body mass and height (Ht) were evaluated to calculate BMI (body mass index, in Kg/m²).