ESPEN guidelines on nutrition in dementia

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1052-1073

  Volkert, Dorothee ^a   Chourdakis, Michael ^b   Faxen Irving, Gerd ^c   Frühwald, Thomas ^d   Landi, Francesco ^e   Suominen, Merja H ^f   Vandewoude, Maurits ^g   Wirth, Rainer ^a,h   Schneider, Stéphane M ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d Krankenhaus Hietzing   (Austria)

^e CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^f HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^h St Marien Hospital Borken   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NICE   (France)

Author keywords

Dementia; Guideline; Malnutrition; Nutritional interventions; Nutritional support

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL FEEDING; BODY WEIGHT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELDERLY CARE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NURSING; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ONLINE SYSTEM; PATIENT MONITORING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; TERMINAL DISEASE; AGED; APPETITE; DIET THERAPY; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; DISEASE COURSE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; TRACE ELEMENT;

AGED; APPETITE; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEMENTIA; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; HUMANS; MALNUTRITION; MICRONUTRIENTS; NUTRITION POLICY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84973561934     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: 15321983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2015.09.004     Document Type: Article

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