Table 2 The percentage of people with dementia meeting energy, protein, and fibre recommendations by dementia levels (n = 63)
Intake | Dementia levels according to MMSE | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Moderate and severe dementia (n = 30) | Mild dementia and normal (n = 33) | |||||||||||||||
Mean | SD | % of meeting recommendation* | Mean | SD | % of meeting recommendation* | |||||||||||
< 50% | 50–75% | > 75% | < 50% | 50–75% | > 75% | |||||||||||
n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |||||
Energy | 1351.3 | 557.4 | 5 | 16.7 | 9 | 30.0 | 16 | 53.3 | 1207.2 | 561.6 | 10 | 30.3 | 9 | 27.3 | 14 | 42.4 |
Protein | 60.9 | 27.2 | 2 | 6.7 | 7 | 23.3 | 21 | 70.0 | 62.2 | 30.3 | 1 | 3.0 | 7 | 21.2 | 25 | 75.8 |
Fibre | 6.3 | 5.5 | 27 | 90.0 | 2 | 6.7 | 1 | 3.3 | 6.1 | 4.5 | 30 | 90.9 | 2 | 6.1 | 1 | 3.0 |