Malnutrition-related conditions and interventions in US state/territorial Older Americans Act aging plans

BMC Geriatrics

Table 2 Mean number defined nutrition term mentions in state multi-year aging plans by percentile US state population ≥ 65^a

Terms searched	Percent (%) of the population that is ≥ 65 years of age^b
Terms searched	< 15.5%	> 15.5%
Nutrition
Number (#) overall mentions	27.4	35.2
# mentions in Goal/Objective	1.7	1.9
# mentions in Strategy/Action	5.9	7.4
Malnutrition/undernutrition/underweight
# overall mentions	1.1	1.2
# mentions in Goal/Objective	0.1	0.2
# mentions in Strategy/Action	0.4	0.3
Frailty/frail
# overall mentions	2.6	2.8
# mentions in Goal/Objective	0.1	0.0
# mentions in Strategy/Action	0.3	0.1
Obesity/overweight
# overall mentions	0.5	0.4
# mentions in Goal/Objective)	0.0	0.0
# mentions in Strategy/Action)	0.1	0.0

^aMentions of defined nutrition terms in 50 US state unit on multi-year aging plans by those available on the ADvancing States website in February 2021 and grouped by lower, upper 50^th percentile of US state population ≥ 65 years of age; there were no mentions of sarcopenia in the state unit on aging plans
^bStatistical differences were not found for any terms by % of the population that was ≥ 65 years of age

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