Malnutrition is seen among many people living alone. You need to be careful, because the condition could result in a compromised immune system and make it harder to overcome diseases, or you could nee

Not just for those living alone, but for people from all walks of life. Malnutrition includes an improper diet. If you're chugging coca-cola, regularly chowing down on cup ramen, or spending a lot of time at McDonald's (for example), then your clock is ticking.

Normal physiological processes as well as psychosocial factors is what results in the elderly being at higher risk than the younger people for malnutrition but unfortunately malnutrition is often unrecognized and under-treated by nurses and healthcare professionals. That's because they don't use efficiently the available nutritional screening tools. They lack awareness and knowledge regarding the usefulness of nutritional screening tools. So nutritional screening needs to become an essential part of the routine nursing practice when caring for the older adults and the nurses need to take advantage of the available tools to assist them in quantifying and qualifying the incidence of malnutrition and or the risk for malnutrition in their older adult patients.

Scoffing down bowls of polished, white rice everyday doesn't help.