The presence of malnutrition in community-living older adults receiving home nursing services

Nutrition and Dietetics

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 46-50

  Rist, Georgie ^a   Miles, Gail ^a   Karimi, Leila ^b  

^a Helen Macpherson Smith Institute of Community Health   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ageing; Community health; Malnutrition; Nutrition screening; Nutritional status

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857546316     PISSN: 14466368     EISSN: 17470080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0080.2011.01572.x     Document Type: Article

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