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Improving nutritional status of older persons with dementia using a national preventive care program
The aim of the study was to investigate the outcome of change in body weight associated with use of a structured preventive care process among persons with dementia assessed as at risk of malnutrition or malno...
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Who will become malnourished? A prospective study of factors associated with malnutrition in older persons living at home
To describe the nutritional status of older persons living at home, to investigate factors of importance for nutritional status, and to describe possible relationships between nutritional status and health-rel...
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Adapting “The Staff Attitudes to Nutritional Nursing Care scale” to geriatric nursing care
A positive attitude is assumed to be important in nursing staff’s help and support of elderly people during meals. As there is no specific tool for measuring staff’s attitudes regarding important issues within...
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Evaluation of nutritional assessment techniques in elderly people newly admitted to municipal care
Objectives: To evaluate the Subjective Global Assessment (SGA) and the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) with regard to validity using a combination of anthropometric and serum-protein measurements as standard cr...
