Aims & Objectives
Aim:
To implement strategies to identify and reduce the risk of malnutrition in residential care home patients’
Learning objectives :
To understand malnutrition in a residential care home setting
To demonstrate practices to calculate malnutrition risk using MUST
To understand the food first approach and how best to implement this when someone is at risk of malnutrition
How to appropriately monitor and when to appropriately refer to the dietetic team