Nutrition in the Elderly

The role of the feeding process as part of the needs of the old person, reflecting empathy and psychosocial support, is becoming more prominent part of elderly care. The main challenges of clinical nutrition in the aged now, are keeping the elderly person in optimal nutritional status as well as in the determination of the optimal and faster timing for intervention. The recent developments in the technology of nutrition support give us the tools to supply every person with all nutrients compounds in different manners. We can modulate the dietary structure in any way that we think that can benefit the person. Sarcopenia, the decline in muscle mass is part of the aging process, the differentiation between low muscular mass resulting from starvation secondary to disease and that derived as a consequence of different responses to disease with the background effect of aging is has been recently determined.