Assessing and managing the nutrition levels of long-term care recipients is an important task. Proper nutrition is essential for maintaining a person's quality of life, speeding healing, and managing chronic illnesses.
Nutrition and Dementia
Cognitively impaired patients often experience loss of appetite, dysphagia, and other symptoms that are obstacles to proper nutrition. Mild cognitive impairment can also cause people to forget or skip meals or to prepare food improperly. Finally,...
Special Diets
Older people often have chronic illnesses which require acute attention to their dietary intake. Heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, and anemia are examples of illnesses in which careful regulation of the diet and dietary supplements are the main...
Institutional Care
Institutional Care highlights optimal nutritional practices for patients in long-term care, and the conditions associated with poor nutrition, while addressing the requirements of the Older Americans Act.
Stroke
Information regarding nutrition and stroke.
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