title: [Focus on nutrition improves the effect of rehabilitation in geriatric patients].
abstract: As a consequence of the loss of physical function more than half of the geriatric patients are discharged with a physical rehabilitation plan. Only a few patients are, however, discharged with a nutritional rehabilitation plan. Data suggest that about 60% of the geriatric patients who are discharged with a physical rehabilitation plan never start the rehabilitation, often due to readmissions. Presumably, this figure could be lowered if a nutritional intervention was initiated. Hence, geriatric patients discharged with a physical rehabilitation plan should simultaneously be discharged with a nutritional rehabilitation plan.
authors.affiliation: ambe@phmetropol.dk.
authors.forename: Anne Marie
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Beck
authors.forename: Birthe Stenbæk
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Hansen
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004044:Dietary Proteins / Q000008:administration & dosage; D019587:Dietary Supplements; D016330:Frail Elderly; D006801:Humans; D044623:Nutrition Therapy; D010351:Patient Discharge; D012046:Rehabilitation; D012196:Review Literature as Topic
chemical_list: D004044:Dietary Proteins