Touch-Screen Technology to Address Malnutrition in Older People
From: University of Sheffield - 11/07/2012
By: Amy Pullan 

UK researchers from Sheffield University recently showcased the Novel
Assessment of Nutrition and Aging (NANA) system during an event at the House
of Parliament in London. NANA is the product of a three-year cooperative
effort by a team of academics from the University of Sheffield and three
other UK universities aimed at creating a system for measuring diet,
cognition, mood, and physical function among seniors. Malnutrition,
especially, is a major issue for seniors in Britain, with one-third of those
living independently at risk of malnutrition. A touchscreen-based system,
NANA tracks diet and other metrics through straightforward user inputs,
giving seniors an easy way to visualize their daily habits. NANA makes it
easy for anyone to enter items of food and drink consumed throughout the day,
both as complete meals and snacks. NANA keeps tabs on what users actually
consume by comparing before and after they eat and drink. Although developed
with seniors who live independently in mind, NANA also has attracted
attention from several elder care facilities, which say they also experience
malnutrition concerns with roughly one-third of their residents. 

Read the entire article at:
http://shg.sheffield.ac.uk/news/touchscreentechnologytoaddressmalnutritionin.aspx

Links:
NANA touchscreen computer system to tackle malnutrition in older people
http://www.gizmag.com/touchscreen-computer-malnutrition/24946/

Novel Assessment of Nutrition and Ageing
http://www.personal.reading.ac.uk/~sis05fh/nana/

Elizabeth Williams
http://www.shef.ac.uk/oncology/staffprofiles/williams