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