Nutrition Issues in the Home, Community, and Long‐Term Care Setting

Effects of a feeding skills training programme on nursing assistants and dementia patients

“…1987). Feeding difficulty of dementia patients was related to the food intake (Watson 1993) and failure to eat may be associated with weight loss in long‐term care facilities (Watson 1997, Castellanos et al. 2003).…”

Titelbild: Flip‐Flop einer Wasserstoffbrücke durch einen Bjerrum’schen Defekt (Angew. Chem. 9/2013)

“…Once self‐feeding is impaired, the patient becomes at risk for malnutrition and its sequelae. When self‐feeding ceases altogether, the patient becomes dependent on the motivation, commitment, and skill of caregivers for adequate nutrition and hydration (Priefer and Robbins, 1997; Castellanos et al , 2003). Maintaining the eating ability of patients with dementia is a major concern of health professionals, but only a few published training programs for nurses and nursing assistants focusing on feeding institutionalized residents with dementia exist (Roberts and Durnbaugh, 2002; Chang and Lin, 2005).…”

Los estudios de costes, herramienta imprescindible en la nutrición clínica del siglo XXI

“…Así, la nutrición parenteral domiciliaria (NPD) se defi ne como la modalidad de soporte o apoyo nutricional que permite la administración de soluciones de nutrición parenteral (NP) en el propio domicilio del paciente. Es decir, permite realizar una compleja terapia nutricional en un ambiente familiar y confortable exigiendo el compromiso y la responsabilidad de los propios pacientes y sus cuidadores (2). No disponemos de datos fi dedignos que nos informen del número de pacientes que reciben NPD en los distintos países.…”