Nutritional Risk - Resource Manual

Summary

This Resource Manual has been designed to demonstrate and advocate for the introduction of nutritional risk screening and monitoring to the assessment process for all vulnerable adult clients (frail older people, younger adults with a disability and people living in alternative accommodation) who require Community Services to remain living independently.

A simple tool for nutritional risk screening and monitoring has been presented in Section 1 and described in Section 2 Nutritional Risk Screening and Monitoring. The tool consists of ten trigger questions to increase awareness as to whether nutritional risk exists for the client. These trigger questions are expanded further in Section 3 Nutrition and Health Issues.

The general assessment which is conducted with the client explores the reasons why such nutritional risk exists. These reasons are discussed in Section 4 General Assessment of Food and Nutrition Issues. In Sections 3 and 4, outlines have been provided for simple strategies of intervention, monitoring, and for accessing expert resources for further client assistance. Section 5 Dietary principles and problems provides further information on this important subject.

Section 6 Ways in which Dietitians Can Assist Home Care Clients and services summarises the roles and functions of dietitians can take. Sections 7 to 9 provide a range of completed Case Studies which are self explanatory and Section 10 gives some examples which can be used for Quality Improvement for Nutritional Risk Screening.

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Nutritional Risk - Resource Manual (435kb, pdf)

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Nutritional Risk - Section 1 - Introduction (68kb, pdf)

Nutritional Risk - Section 2 - Nutritional risk screening and monitoring (87kb, pdf)

Nutritional Risk - Section 3 - Nutrition and health issues (98kb, pdf)

Nutritional Risk - Section 4 - General assessment of food and nutrition issues (87kb, pdf)

Nutritional Risk - Section 5 - Dietary princples and problems (101kb, pdf)

Nutritional Risk - Section 6 - Ways dietitians can assist home care clients and services (50kb, pdf)

Nutritional Risk - Section 7 - Case studies - Frail older people (64kb, pdf)

Nutritional Risk - Section 8 - Case studies - Adults with a disability (50kb, pdf)

Nutritional Risk - Section 9 - Case studies - Financially disadvantaged adults - Living in alternative accommodation (47kb, pdf)

Nutritional Risk - Section 10 - Quality improvement for nutritional risk screening and monitoring (38kb, pdf)

Nutritional Risk - Appendix 1 to 4 (70kb, pdf)