Virginie VAN WYMELBEKE

 virginie.vanwymelbeke@chu-dijon.fr

Researcher  CHUG 

What is undernutrition? What consequences for older people? And how does what this population can eat to keep pleasure when the inabilities linked with age appear? Maintaining a good food intake and a good health need to adapt diet to bring the quantities of protein and calories needed without forgetting pleasure to eat, sometimes one the only pleasure.

For 23 years, CHUG has initiated studies with CSGA on dietary and nutritional strategies to improve meal enjoyment and food intake in older people in order to prevent malnutrition. Studies allowed also associating stakeholders including healthcare professionals (e.g. geriatrician, caregivers, nursing homes) and private companies (e.g. food industries, catering services, helpers structures), relationships who allowed to understand the constraints and the needs.

Smith R., Methven L., Clegg M.E., Geny A., Ueland Ø., Synnøve Grini I., Helgesdotter Rognså G., Maitre I., Brasse Cé., Van Wymelbeke-Delannoy V. & Sulmont-Rossé C., Older adults' acceptability of and preferences for food-based protein fortification in the UK, France and Norway., Appetite (2024), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2024.107319.

Geny A, Petitjean M, Van Wymelbeke-Delannoy V, Sulmont-Rossé C. impact of food fortification on nutritional outcomes and acceptability in older people: systematic literature review. Front. Nutr., 27 October 2023 Sec. Clinical Nutrition Volume 10 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2023.1232502

Sulmont-Rossé C., Vanwymelbeke-Delannoy V., Maître I. Prevalence of undernutrition and risk of undernutrition in overweight and obese older people. Frontiers in Nutrition, section Nutrition and Metabolism. 2022

Van Wymelbeke-Delannoy V, Juhel C, Bole H, Sow AK, Guyot C, Belbaghdadi F, Brousse O, Paindavoine M. A Cross-Sectional Reproducibility Study of a Standard Camera Sensor Using Artificial Intelligence to Assess Food Items: The FoodIntech Project. Nutrients. 2022 Jan 5;14(1):221. https://doi: 10.3390/nu14010221 

Van Wymelbeke-Delannoy V, Maître I, Salle A, Lesourd B, Bailly N, Sulmont-Rossé C. Prevalence of malnutrition risk among older French adults with culinary dependence. Age Ageing. 2022 Jan 6;51(1):afab208. https://doi: 10.1093/ageing/afab208. 

Roger A, Michon D, Sulmont-Rossé C, Van Wymelbeke-Delannoy V, Hugol-Gential C. Engager les personnes âgées dans l'acte alimentaire: les pratiques du personnel en EHPAD. Nutrition Clinique et Métabolisme. 2021

Fleury S, Van Wymelbeke-Delannoy V, Lesourd B, Tronchon P, Maître I, Sulmont-Rossé C. Home-Delivered Meals: Characterization of Food Intake in Elderly Beneficiaries. Nutrients 2021, 13, 2064. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13062064