Evidence: senior / geriatric cat nutrition
Source: Europe PMC (Europe PubMed Central) REST search — first-hand peer-reviewed abstract records, pulled 2026-07-22. Query: (("senior" OR "geriatric" OR "aging") AND cat AND (nutrition OR diet)) AND HAS_ABSTRACT:"Y". The cluster returns 23500 records in Europe PMC; 6 representative studies are extracted below. Abstract text is verbatim from source; each study is traceable by PMID.
Studies
- PMID 42278121 (2026, Animals : an open access journal from MDPI) — Increasing Dietary Potassium Enhances Urine Production and Reduces Risk of Calcium Oxalate Stone Formation in Senior Cats.. The objective of these three studies was to determine if dietary potassium supplementation affects urine production or calcium oxalate (CaOx) relative supersaturation (RSS) in adult cats.
- PMID 41514733 (2025, Animals : an open access journal from MDPI) — Twenty-Four-Hour Feeding Patterns of In-Home Healthy Aging Cats Fed Wet, Dry, or a Combination of Wet and Dry Diets Ad Libitum.. Domesticated cats have evolved from the obligate carnivore <i>Felis silvestris</i>.
- PMID 42278184 (2026, Animals : an open access journal from MDPI) — Emerging Trends in Pet Food: Scientific Innovations, Patent Landscapes, and Global Market Development.. The pet food sector has progressively evolved over the past decade from conventional nutrition toward functionally targeted and sustainability-oriented systems that are increasingly parallel developments in human health.
- PMID 42280417 (2026, Nutrients) — Full-Fat Rice Bran Ameliorates Insulin Resistance and Modulates Muscle-Related Parameters in High-Fat Diet-Fed Ovariectomized Mice with Potential Involvement of the Gut-Muscle Axis.. <b>Objectives:</b> The study aimed to evaluate the effects of full-fat rice bran (FFRB; Tainung No.
- PMID 41149653 (2025, Metabolites) — Serum Metabolomics of Senior Dogs Fed a Fresh, Human-Grade Food or an Extruded Kibble Diet.. <b>Background/Objectives</b>: Despite the growing popularity of fresh food for dogs, there is an extremely small amount of literature evaluating the potential health benefits of fresh food and reduced processing compared
- PMID 41176630 (2026, Journal of animal physiology and animal nutrition) — Age-Dependent Increase in Small Intestinal Permeability and Sex-Dependent Absorptive Capacity in Cats (Felis catus).. Age-associated changes in intestinal permeability and function have not been studied in domestic cats, leaving a key factor in the relationship between age and digestive health in cats unexplored.
Source text: pdf-raw/evidence/europepmc_feline_senior_geriatric_nutrition_2026-07-22.txt (Europe PMC first-hand abstracts, pulled 2026-07-22).