Improving nutrition care and diet intake for hospitalised older people at risk of malnutrition through a nurse-driven mealtime assistance bundle.

Background: Poor dietary intake is common in hospitalised older people. A targeted mealtime intervention is needed to improve nutrition care and dietary intake, especially for those at risk of malnutrition.

Objectives: This quality improvement project designed, implemented and evaluated a mealtime assistance bundle consisting of care measures driven by the hospital nursing team.

Functional improvement in hospitalized older adults is independent of dementia diagnosis: experience of a specialized delirium management unit.

Background: Patients with delirium, especially when superimposed on dementia, are at high risk of functional decline.

Objective: To examine the influence of a multicomponent delirium management program, the geriatric monitoring unit (GMU), on functional progress of delirious older patients and the impact of underlying dementia on functional recovery.

Design: Prospective cohort study.