Most research and studies that have been done, has been on adult obesity, but there has not been much focus put on older adult obesity. However, obesity in older adults has increased and this has caused experts to focus on this disease in the elderly (Wills, 2011). Statistics show that “rates of obesity” increases as a person ages. Studies show that older people who are between the ages of fifty-five and sixty-four have a percentage rate sixty-five percent chance being obese if they were overweight or obese as an adult. With the growing population of older adults who are obese there is the concern about health
