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Nutrition of Elderly Patients in Long Care Wards

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Aging and Drug Therapy

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In this paper I first make some general comments on nutrition in the elderly and, then, look at the special problems of long term care and report the results of a nutritional study carried out on 14 elderly long stay patients in a large psychiatric hospital in south London.

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  2. S. Thomas, A study of the nutritional status of 14 long-stay patients in Springfield Hospital, London. Geriatric Teaching and Research Unit, St. George’s Hospital, (1981)

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  1. St. George’s Hospital Medical School, London, England

    Peter H. Millard, Eleanor Peel & Sue Thomas

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  1. Institute of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

    G. Barbagallo-Sangiorgi

  2. School of Medicine, University College London, London, England

    A. N. Exton-Smith

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Millard, P.H., Peel, E., Thomas, S. (1984). Nutrition of Elderly Patients in Long Care Wards. In: Barbagallo-Sangiorgi, G., Exton-Smith, A.N. (eds) Aging and Drug Therapy. Ettore Majorana International Science Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2791-2_14

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