Nutritional Interventions in Older, Frail Persons with Heart Failure-A Systematic Narrative Review.

Frailty is a clinical condition common among older persons with heart failure (HF) and has been associated with an increased risk of adverse outcomes such as falls, disability, long-term care, and death. Malnutrition in terms of weight loss and sarcopenia is closely related to frailty. This review summarises nutritional interventions to improve components of frailty in older persons with HF.

Swedish translation and cultural adaptation of the scored Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA©)-A validated tool for screening and assessing malnutrition in clinical practice and research.

Introduction: The scored Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA©) is a validated tool for the screening, assessment and monitoring of malnutrition, and triaging of interventions. It contains a patient-generated component and a healthcare professional (HCP)-generated component.

Aim: To translate the PG-SGA into Swedish, assess the linguistic and content validity of the Swedish version, and ensure conceptional, semantic and operational equivalence to the original English PG-SGA.

Changes in nutritional routines at discharge in Scandinavia during a 10-year period: A follow-up survey.

Background And Aims: Time to treat malnutrition during hospital admission is limited due to short hospital stays. Therefore, nutritional care often needs to be continued after discharge from hospital. However, health care professionals' attitudes and discharge routines may not always support continuity of good nutritional practice.

Effectiveness of multidisciplinary nutritional support in older hospitalised patients: A systematic review and meta-analyses.

Malnutrition is common in older hospitalised patients. As the aetiology is multifactorial, nutritional care should involve a multidisciplinary team. However, the knowledge of the effectiveness of this strategy is limited.

Dealing with taste and smell alterations-A qualitative interview study of people treated for lung cancer.

Taste and smell alterations have been recognized as common symptoms in relation to various cancers. However, previous research suggests that patients do not receive sufficient support in managing taste and smell alterations. Therefore, the objective of this study is to investigate how persons with experience from lung cancer-related taste and smell alterations reason about resources and strategies offered and used to manage these symptoms.