論文タイトル:Exploring whether weight-related cues affect food intake in older adults with dementia 著者:Atsushi Kimura, Kohei Yamaguchi, Haruka Tohara, Yusuke Sato, Naoko Sawada, Yasuhide Nakagawa, Yukako Matsuda, Motoharu Inoue, Yuji Wada, Kazuhiro Tamaki 掲載誌: Clinical Interventions in Aging (IF=3.8) 掲載年: 2023 巻号頁:18, 1453-1461. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2147/CIA.S417254 要旨:Purpose: Past research has shown that exposure to the image of a slim person reduces food consumption among young adults. However, it remains unknown whether this paradigm could be adapted and applied to increase food intake among older adults with dementia by exposing them to the image of a higher-weight person to mitigate weight loss and malnutrition. The present study explored whether weight-related visual cues affect the amount of food consumed by older adults with dementia. Participants and Methods: In the experiment, twenty-one elderly people with dementia living in a nursing home were visually exposed to one of four