A nutritional care primer for the elderly home care patient.
The need for proper nutrition exists for every home care patient. This need is heightened when trauma, illness, or disease challenges the body. Home care professionals can have a positive impact on patient outcomes by remaining alert to key nutritional issues. The author shares tips and includes a nutrition checklist created by the Nutrition Screening Initiative to help health care providers recognize the warning signs of nutritional risk. When the entire home health team works toward meeting the very basic physiological needs for adequate nourishment, patient outcomes cannot help but be enhanced.
Haney
Patty
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pmhaney@aol.com
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004032:Diet; D004358:Drug Therapy; D005518:Food Preferences; D005853:Geriatrics; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D015596:Nutrition Assessment; D014481:United States