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The Challenge of Managing Undernutrition in Older People with Frailty
Many older people with frailty are at risk of malnutrition and poor health, yet there is evidence that improving nutrition and weight loss can reduce frailty. This will become more important as the number of older people with frailty increases worldwide in future. Identifying those at risk is challe...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6521101/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30974825 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu11040808 |
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author | Roberts, Helen C. Lim, Stephen E. R. Cox, Natalie J. Ibrahim, Kinda |
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description | Many older people with frailty are at risk of malnutrition and poor health, yet there is evidence that improving nutrition and weight loss can reduce frailty. This will become more important as the number of older people with frailty increases worldwide in future. Identifying those at risk is challenging due to the difficulty of reaching and screening those older people most at risk, the large number of nutritional assessment tools used, and the lack of consensus on the criteria to make a diagnosis of malnutrition. The management of older people with or at risk of malnutrition should be multi-modal and multi-disciplinary, and all care staff have an important role in delivering appropriate nutritional advice and support. This paper will highlight a number of practical approaches that clinicians can take to manage malnutrition in older people with frailty in community and acute settings, including environmental changes to enhance mealtime experience, food fortification and supplementation. |
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spelling | pubmed-65211012019-05-31 The Challenge of Managing Undernutrition in Older People with Frailty Roberts, Helen C. Lim, Stephen E. R. Cox, Natalie J. Ibrahim, Kinda Nutrients Communication Many older people with frailty are at risk of malnutrition and poor health, yet there is evidence that improving nutrition and weight loss can reduce frailty. This will become more important as the number of older people with frailty increases worldwide in future. Identifying those at risk is challenging due to the difficulty of reaching and screening those older people most at risk, the large number of nutritional assessment tools used, and the lack of consensus on the criteria to make a diagnosis of malnutrition. The management of older people with or at risk of malnutrition should be multi-modal and multi-disciplinary, and all care staff have an important role in delivering appropriate nutritional advice and support. This paper will highlight a number of practical approaches that clinicians can take to manage malnutrition in older people with frailty in community and acute settings, including environmental changes to enhance mealtime experience, food fortification and supplementation. MDPI 2019-04-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6521101/ /pubmed/30974825 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu11040808 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Communication Roberts, Helen C. Lim, Stephen E. R. Cox, Natalie J. Ibrahim, Kinda The Challenge of Managing Undernutrition in Older People with Frailty |
title | The Challenge of Managing Undernutrition in Older People with Frailty |
title_full | The Challenge of Managing Undernutrition in Older People with Frailty |
title_fullStr | The Challenge of Managing Undernutrition in Older People with Frailty |
title_full_unstemmed | The Challenge of Managing Undernutrition in Older People with Frailty |
title_short | The Challenge of Managing Undernutrition in Older People with Frailty |
title_sort | challenge of managing undernutrition in older people with frailty |
topic | Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6521101/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30974825 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu11040808 |
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