Ageing rate of older adults affects the factors associated with, and the determinants of malnutrition in the community: a systematic review and narrative synthesis

Table 1 Reported associated factors, and determinants, of malnutrition in community-dwelling older adults by domain

Demographic	Food Intake	Lifestyle	Social	Physical function	Psychological	Disease-related
Age [33]	Reduced appetite [34]	No alcohol use [35]	Poverty [36]	Frailty [37]	Depression [38]	Polypharmacy [39]
Marital status [33]	Edentulousness [38]	Smoking status [40]	Living alone [41]	Dependency [40]	Dementia [38]	Chronic disease [42]
Sex [43]	Ability to self-feed [44]	Low physical activity [40]	Social support [45]	Mobility [46]	Cognitive decline [46]	Self-reported health status [37]
Education [42]				Falls [47]	Anxiety [37]	Hospitalisation [46]
				Handgrip strength [43]		Acute disease [40]
						Pain [48]

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