Institutionalized elderly people and malnutrition: research on the patients of a nursing home
Protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) is a common finding in hospitalized or institutionalized elderly people. In the literature, PEM is not mentioned as being related to individual ability of the patient to feed him or herself correctly. This study analyzed the 56 patients of a nursing home divided int...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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PAGEPress Publications
2013-09-01
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| Series: | Italian Journal of Medicine |
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| Online Access: | http://www.italjmed.org/index.php/ijm/article/view/419 |