Summary: Dealing with Malnutrition: A Meal Planning System for
Elderly Department of Computer and Information Science 581 83
Link¨oping, Sweden Malnutrition is a serious problem among
people of old age. To overcome malnutrition, a change of food
consumption be- haviour is necessary, which needs to be based on
specialist advice from health-care professionals. Changing food-
related behaviour, however, is known to be difficult. Our
approach to this problem is to provide an intelligent meal
planning sys- tem to be used by the elderly person in his or her
home. The system provides recommendations of suitable food
recipes, taking into account the advice of the care givers (e.g.
in terms of dietary restrictions, suitable energy and fat
levels, etc). We describe the requirements, design, algorithms,
and user inter- face of the system, and discuss ongoing and
future work.