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Registered Dietitian

Category - Nutrition Care

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Features of the Nutrition Screening Initiative (NSI) include:
  1. Use of a 20-question checklist to assess nutritional and health status of elders
  2. Identification of factors that place elders at increased nutritional risk
  3. A focus on elders between the ages of 65 and 75 years
  4. Identification of elders who have a BMI of less than 20
Explanation
Answer: B - Features of the Nutrition Screening Initiative (NSI) include identification of factors that place elders at nutritional risk (such as illness and food availability). A 10-question checklist is used to assess the nutritional and health status of elders. The NSI is particularly interested in assessing the nutritional health of individuals 80 years of age and older.
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