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Management and nurses should focus on residents' eating and drinking, which are essentials of nursing care. The residents should be asked whether they would like to participate in different mealtime activities. Further, a person-centred care approach that facilitates activities concerning food and meals should be promoted.

Bakgrunn: God ernaeringsstand er en viktig forutsetning for helse og livskvalitet. Forskning viser imidlertid at eldre beboere på sykehjem er utsatt for underernaering. Sosial-og helsedirektoratet fikk i oppdrag fra Helse-og omsorgsdepartementet å gjennomføre en kartleggingsundersøkelse av maten og måltidene ved landets sykehjem.Hensikt: Hensikten med kartleggingsundersøkelsen var å beskrive hvordan styrer/leder av sykehjemmet vurderte maten som ble servert beboerne ved sykehjem, antall måltider og tidspunkt for måltidene, og rutiner for å kvalitetssikre ernaeringsarbeidet.Metode: Undersøkelsen var en kvantitativ tverrsnittsundersøkelse. Forespørsel om deltakelse ble sendt til alle sykehjem i Norge (N=886). Hvert sykehjem fikk tilsendt ett spørreskjema. Skjemaet hadde faste svaralternativer. Respondenter fra 570 ulike sykehjem besvarte spørreskjemaet (svarprosent 64).Resultater: Sekstito prosent svarte at maten var appetittvekkende og delikat (N=562), og 49 prosent svarte at det ble servert frukt hver dag

Weight is one of the simplest measurements of nutritional status. Nevertheless, a number of personnel in the community nursing services lack knowledge about nutrition and good routines for weighing patients. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe the routines that managers and health care personnel in the community nursing services follow when assessing patients' nutritional status.Method: The study was a quantitative cross-sectional study, comprising two sub-studies: one among managers in the community nursing services and one among health care personnel. Data were collected by means of a questionnaire. A total of 273 managers (response rate 59%) and 212 health care personnel (response rate 74%) answered the questionnaire.Results: 67% of the managers and 37% of the health care personnel were familiar with the Directorate of Health's national guidelines. One out of three respondents replied that the community nursing services have written procedures for assessing nutritional status. 80% of the managers and 69% of the health care personnel stated that it was not usual to weigh service users when registering them for community nursing services.

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