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Making Nutrition Screening Mandatory in Geriatric Health Assessment can Help Detect Malnutrition Among Older Adults

Health experts suggest that nutrition screenings should be made compulsory as part of the comprehensive geriatric analysis (CGA) as it could help identify signs of malnutrition among older adults struggling with one or more chronic health conditions. The CGA, first developed in the 1930s, is a multidimensional diagnostic process that looks at a frail elderly person's medical, psychosocial, and functional capabilities in order to develop an overall plan for treatment ...

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