This book provides basic dietary recommendations that are appropriate to meet the nutritional needs of elderly persons along with practical recommendations for quality assurance in inpatient and outpatient nutritional care. It discusses key problems of deficient and excessive diets, specific issues in nutritional support for patients in nursing care facilities, with dementia, and at the end of life.

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Dorothee Volkert, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.