Geriatric Nutrition Risk Assessment (MD Version)

With advancing age, older adults are increasingly vulnerable to reduced appetite, chronic diseases, functional decline, and social factors that collectively elevate the risk of malnutrition. In clinical practice, nutritional risk in older patients is often underrecognized, despite its strong association with impaired quality of life, higher infection rates, increased hospitalization, complications, and mortality.

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The Geriatric Nutrition Risk Assessment (MD Version) is designed to support clinicians with a concise, structured, and interpretable screening tool to identify potential nutritional risk and its key contributing factors in older adults. This assessment is not intended to replace a comprehensive nutritional diagnosis, but rather to facilitate early identification, risk stratification, and informed clinical decision-making.

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By integrating patient background information, functional status, recent changes in weight and intake, and dietary consumption data, this tool generates a standardized nutritional risk classification along with a clinician-oriented medical summary, enabling more efficient and targeted nutritional management within routine clinical workflows.