Nutritional Assessment - Risk Factors
NICE guidelines www.nice.org.uk/cg032  (2006) and others
•NICE Listed
•Fragile skin
•Poor wound healing
•Apathy
•Wasted muscles
•Poor appetite
•Altered taste sensation
•Impaired swallowing
•Altered bowel habit
•Loose fitting clothes
•Prolonged intercurrent illness: chronic infection,
chest disease,
cardiac failure,
cancer etc.