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Nutrition in Oncology: Essential Aspects to Deliver Outcomes

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IMPROVING NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT FOR HIP FRACTURE PATIENTS
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Improving nutritional support for hip fracture patients.

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April 2026 | 34 min

GLIM Foundations & Practice: Malnutrition Diagnosis Guide

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Learn how to diagnose malnutrition using GLIM, explore practical case studies, and review real‑world data on GLIM adoption, challenges, and benefits. Earn CPD certification.

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December 2025 | 54 mins

Nutrition Screening and Assessment

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Explore tools like MUST and SARC-F for early detection of malnutrition and sarcopenia, and learn how to develop and implement effective nutritional care plans.

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July 2020 | 2 min

Why and How to Screen Patients' Muscle Health

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Looking beyond BMI: why and how to screen patients' muscle health
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Learn why muscle health matters beyond BMI. Discover practical tools, techniques, and nutrition strategies to support strength, function, and overall wellbeing in patient care.

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May 2024 | 2 min

Managing Sarcopenia & Frailty: How Can Nutrition & Exercise Improve Clinical Outcomes?

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Managing Sarcopenia & Frailty: How Can Nutrition & Exercise Improve Clinical Outcomes?
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Explore how malnutrition accelerates age-related muscle loss, contributing to frailty and sarcopenia—and how targeted nutrition and early intervention can improve strength and outcomes.

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April 2022 | 1 hr 03 mins

The Science Behind Muscle Loss in Chronic Disease & Acute Trauma

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Learn how chronic illness and acute trauma accelerate muscle loss, affecting mobility, strength, and wellbeing—and why early nutritional and clinical intervention is key to recovery.

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April 2019 | 23 min

Understanding the Impact of Sarcopenia in Frailty: Going from Strength to Strength

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Understanding the Impact of Sarcopenia in Frailty: Going from Strength to Strength
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Understand how age-related muscle loss (sarcopenia) contributes to frailty, increasing fall risk, disability, and reduced quality of life in older adults—and why early intervention matters.

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April 2019 | 22 min

Optimising Nutrition to Improve Muscle Strength in Individuals at Risk for Falls

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Optimising Nutrition to Improve Muscle Strength in Individuals at Risk for Falls
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Learn how nutrition and muscle strength assessment can help reduce fall risk in older adults, with practical strategies to support mobility, resilience, and overall health.

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July 2020 | 1 hr 08 mins

Vitamin D and protein for muscle health

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Discover how vitamin D, combined with protein and resistance exercise, may support muscle mass, improve musculoskeletal health, and help reduce the risk of age-related conditions.

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June 2022 | 6 min

Embedding Muscle Screening in Practice - A Dietitian's Perspective

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Embedding Muscle Screening in Practice - A Dietitian's Perspective
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A dietitian shares practical insights on integrating muscle screening into routine care, highlighting its impact on patient outcomes and how to overcome common implementation challenges.

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September 2024 | 2 min

Nourish the Muscle: Impact Clinical Outcomes Across the Continuum of Care

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Nourish the Muscle: Impact Clinical Outcomes Across the Continuum of Care
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Explore how supporting muscle health through targeted nutrition can improve clinical outcomes, recovery, and quality of life in children with neurological or physical impairments.

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June 2020 | 1 hr 01 min

Maintaining muscle in older people: vitamin D, protein or exercise?

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Understand how vitamin D, protein, and exercise support muscle health in older adults, helping to maintain mobility, function, and quality of life through targeted nutritional strategies.

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May 2022 | 32 min

Supporting Muscle Health through Screening and Intervention

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Daily activity matters to patients. Screening tools like handgrip and SARC-F help identify muscle loss early, guiding timely nutrition and intervention to support muscle health and outcomes.

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August 2024 | 4 min

The Benefits of Beta-Hydroxy-Beta-Methylbutyrate (HMB)

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Learn how HMB supports muscle health in cancer patients. Early detection of muscle loss and targeted nutrition can improve survival, treatment tolerance, and overall clinical outcomes.

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August 2023 | 3 min

Embedding Patient Assessments and Pathways to Enahnce Care

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Setting Up A Service: Embedding Patient Assessments and Pathways to Enhance Care
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Learn the key steps, considerations, and processes for setting up a prehabilitation service, with a focus on embedding patient assessments and care pathways to improve outcomes.

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June 2023 | 38 min

Muscle Matters: Finding & Diagnosing Sarcopenia

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Muscle Matters: Finding & Diagnosing Sarcopenia
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Learn how to identify and diagnose sarcopenia with this infographic. Understand muscle loss, its health impact, and why early detection is key for older adults and at-risk individuals.

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July 2020 | 4 min

The Role of Leucine & ß-Hydroxy-ß-Methylbutyrate (HMB)

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The Role of Leucine & ß-hydroxy-ß-methylbutirate (HMB)
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Discover how leucine and its metabolite HMB support muscle health in ageing and illness in this infographic, featuring key scientific insights and evidence from clinical research.

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February 2023 | 4 min

Why Maintaining Muscle Matters: Infographic

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Discover why maintaining muscle is vital for healthy aging—supporting strength, mobility, and metabolism—and how it helps you stay active, resilient, and independent over time.

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January 2020 | 2 min

Developing a Nutritional Pathway for Cancer Patients

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Explore how structured nutritional care pathways—covering screening, assessment, diagnosis, intervention, and monitoring—can support better outcomes for cancer patients.

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March 2023 | 6 min

Prehabilitation: Synergy for Surgery

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Prehabilitation: Synergy for Surgery
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Explore how trimodal prehabilitation—exercise, nutrition, and psychological support—can help cancer patients improve surgical outcomes and overall wellbeing before treatment begins.

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December 2022 | 6 min

Nourishing Muscle: Unlocking the Power of Nutrition

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Explore muscle’s role in health, sarcopenia, and protein needs. Learn how HMB and high-protein ONS support strength and recovery in older adults across clinical care settings.

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May 2024 | 43 min

Developing a Nutritional Pathway for COPD Patients

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COPD nutrition care involves screening, assessment, intervention, and monitoring. Early muscle loss detection is key to building effective nutrition pathways and improving outcomes.

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November 2023 | 6 min

Protein Fact Sheet

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Use this infographic to learn how protein supports health and muscle in older adults. Includes intake tips, risks of low protein, and high-protein food ideas to help meet daily needs.

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July 2020 | 6 min

Integrating muscle measures in practice to improve patient-centred outcomes

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This course explores causes of frailty like malnutrition and muscle loss, and teaches screening, diagnosis, and interventions to improve patient-centred outcomes.

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November 2022 | 59 min

Remote Malnutrition Application for Primary Practice (RMAPP)

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A dietitian explores telemedicine’s role in nutrition screening and reviews RMAPP—a remote tool for assessing malnutrition and muscle loss in primary care settings.

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December 2020 | 22 min

Nutrition in Wound Care: Aspects to Improve Outcomes

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Nutrition in Wound Care: Aspects to Improve Outcomes
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Explore how early nutrition screening and targeted interventions can support wound healing, improve outcomes, and enhance recovery in clinical care.

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May 2021 | 42 min

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in the ICU

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Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in the ICU
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Explore how AI and machine learning support ICU nutrition care—highlighting malnutrition risks, GLIM assessment, and the need for adaptive, patient-specific nutrition strategies.

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December 2024 | 12 min

How Critical is Vitamin D for Your Patient Outcomes?

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How Critical is Vitamin D for Your Patient Outcomes? Demystifying the Role of Vitamin D
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Vitamin D deficiency affects muscle and immune health, raising injury and infection risk. Assessing levels is key when offering nutritional support in clinical practice.

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March 2021 | 1 hr 02 mins

Understanding and Combatting Muscle Loss in Cancer Patients

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Understanding and Combatting Muscle Loss in Cancer Patients
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Explore how muscle loss affects cancer patients and how early detection and HMB-based nutritional support can help manage malnutrition, improve strength, and enhance treatment outcomes.

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October 2023 | 3 min

Nutrition in Oncology: Essential Aspects to Deliver Outcomes

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Nutrition in oncology: essential aspects to deliver outcomes across the continuum of care
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Learn about the impact of low muscle mass on clinical outcomes in patients with cancer and the role of nutrition and prehabilitation in treatment. 

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November 2021 | 1 hr 03 min

Assessing Muscle Mass and Function

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Assessing muscle mass and function: practical tools and nutritional interventions to improve patient outcomes
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A dietitian explains how muscle mass impacts health and quality of life, and how screening, assessment, and nutrition strategies can improve patient outcomes.

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January 2022 | 52 min

Nutrition in cancer care: from screening to prehabilitation

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Explore the role of assessment and specialised nutrition in cancer care, focusing on managing malnutrition and muscle loss from screening through to prehabilitation.

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March 2022 | 53 min

Specialised Nutrition to Achieve Outcomes for COPD Patients

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The role of specialist nutrition in achieving optimal outcomes for COPD patients - across the continuum of care
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Explore the link between COPD, malnutrition, and sarcopenia, and learn how specialist nutrition interventions can support better outcomes across the continuum of care.

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September 2020 | 67 min

Best Practice: The Role of Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialists

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Best practice consensus: the role of cancer clinical nurse specialists in nutritional and muscle screening, assessment and management
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Cancer nurse specialists created a best practice consensus with a four-step pathway to enhance nutritional and muscle screening, assessment, and management in holistic patient care.

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August 2024 | 4 min

Nutrition and Exercise: Supporting Cancer Patients

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Nutrition and exercise empower cancer patients throughout their journey—enhancing wellbeing, immunity, and treatment tolerance for improved outcomes and quality of life.

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December 2022 | 40 min

Prehabilitation: Improving Outcomes in Cancer Care

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Learn about the importance of muscle screening and the impact of multimodal prehabilitation to improve outcomes in patients with cancer.

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May 2022 | 37 min

Screening Geriatric Patients for Optimal Nutrition

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This video shows how nearly half of elderly patients face malnutrition. Screening tools like R-MAPP and HMB-based nutrition can help improve muscle mass and reduce complications like fractures.

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December 2024 | 8 min

Integrating Muscle Measures to Improve Patient Outcomes

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Muscle loss is common in ageing and illness. This article highlights the importance of assessing muscle in practice and using nutrition and exercise to improve patient-centred outcomes.

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March 2023 | 2 min

Prehabilitation: Getting Cancer Patients Fit for Therapy

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Explore how prehabilitation helps cancer patients prepare for treatment. Learn about its benefits in improving physical and mental resilience before therapy begins.

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October 2021 | 20 min

From Screening to Strength: Impacting Patient Outcomes

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From screening to strength: impacting patient outcomes with muscle-focused screening
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This video explores muscle health decline, its impact on outcomes, and how PCN dietitians can use screening tools and interventions to support frailty care in primary settings.

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May 2024 | 22 min

What is PRONTO and How can it Help Oncology Patients

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PRONTO uses 3 quick questions on weight, intake, and muscle to screen cancer patients for malnutrition risk—streamlining oncology visits and usable by all healthcare professionals.

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December 2024 | 8 min

Nutrition and HMB for Muscle Health

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A nutrition scientist explains how muscle health supports recovery. Tools like DEXA and HMB supplementation help detect and reduce loss, improving outcomes in cancer and chronic illness.

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December 2024 | 17 min

Helping Older Adults to Stay Independent for Longer

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Muscle loss increases fall and fracture risk. Early nutrition and exercise are key but often missed. A 2019 consensus offers practical guidance to support independence in older adults.

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November 2023 | 6 min

The High Risk of Malnutrition and Loss of Muscle

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The High Risk of Malnutrition and Loss of muscle in acute healthcare settings
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UK hospital audit shows muscle loss is common even without malnutrition, revealing that standard screening may miss patients needing targeted nutritional support.

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May 2024 | 6 min

Embedding Malnutrition and Muscle Screening in Hospitals

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Embedding malnutrition and muscle screening in hospitals: Learning from 14 UK Trusts
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This symposium shares UK audit findings on malnutrition and muscle loss in hospitals, highlighting prevalence, clinical risks, and implications for patient care.

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November 2023 | 40 min

GLIM Criteria for the Diagnosis of Malnutrition

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GLIM criteria for the diagnosis of malnutrition – a consensus report from the global clinical nutrition community
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GLIM offers a global two-step approach to diagnose adult malnutrition using phenotypic and aetiologic criteria, guiding consistent, effective nutritional care worldwide.

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2019 | 6 min

Screening & Treating Muscle Loss: A Spotlight on Oncology Strategies

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Screening and treating muscle loss: a spotlight on oncology strategies
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A dietitian shares expert insights on screening and managing muscle loss in oncology—covering malnutrition, sarcopenia, and key nutrition strategies to support patient care.

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September 2023 | 31 min

Sarcopenic Obesity: Nutritional and Exercise Interventions

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Discuss sarcopenic obesity, the obesity paradox, and how muscle mass affects cardiometabolic health, with key rehab nutrition and exercise strategies.

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June 2021 | 31 min

The power of HMB

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Muscle loss impacts patients and NHS costs. Early diagnosis and HMB-based nutritional support can improve outcomes. This article explores managing muscle loss and malnutrition with HMB supplements.

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March 2023 | 2 min

Falls Prevention in Over 65s

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Falls prevention in over 65s: catching patients before they fall
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Falls are a leading cause of hospitalisation in older adults. Malnutrition and muscle loss raise risk, but early screening and nutrition can help prevent them. Learn more in this infographic.

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