Why seniors don’t eat
More than half of older adults who visit emergency departments are either malnourished or at risk for malnutrition, but not because of lack of access to health care, critical illness or dementia.
August 14, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: critical-illness, emergency-departments, illness-or-dementia, malnourished, nutritional counseling, older-adults, on call diets, oncalldiets, seniors / aging
Screening tool may under-report malnutrition risk in hospitalised frail older people
A number of frail, older hospital patients in the UK who are either malnourished or at risk of malnutrition may currently go unreported, according to the findings of a new clinical study.
June 24, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, either-malnourished, findings, malnourished, new-clinical, nutrition, older-hospital, on call diets, seniors / aging, the-findings
