NCT02873858

Elucidation of Sensory Characteristics and Food Preferences in the Elderly

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 611 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Dijon · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Malnutrition is a frequent problem in persons older than 65 years: the prevalence of malnutrition can reach 25 to 29% in persons living at home who require help, figures vary between 19 and 38% for those living in institutions, and finally, the prevalence of malnutrition in hospitalized elderly patients can reach 30 to 90%. A few studies have attempted to explain modifications in attitudes, behaviour, the frequency of meals or nutritional status in the elderly by a fall in chemosensory sensitivity The aim of this project is to test the hypothesis that perhaps it is not as much the capacity to perceive a smell or a taste that affects eating behaviour in the elderly as their ability to distinguish between smells or tastes on the one hand (perceptual processing), and their ability to correctly interpret a chemosensory signal on the other (cognitive processing).

Conditions

• Malnutrition

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	smell and taste tests

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-12-01
• Primary completion: 2011-07-01
• Completion: 2011-07-01
• First posted: 2016-08-22
• Last updated: 2016-08-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France