OCCURRENCE OF PHYSICAL EXERCISE IN ADDITION TO A PRESCRIBED ORAL NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENT IN ELDERLY HOMECARE RECIPIENTS

Introduction Sarcopenia is an age-related condition associated with greater risk of falls, poor health outcomes, deteriorated quality of life as well as greater mortality.1 However, sarcopenia can be prevented and even reversed through nutritional and exercise-based strategies. More specifically, protein-rich diets have shown to delay the loss of muscle mass.2 In line, sarcopenic patients were shown to benefit most from a protein-rich oral nutritional supplements (ONS) when it is combined with an exercise intervention.3 Objectives To assess how often protein-rich ONS (Moltein®Plus) is prescribed in combination w…