ArticleBMC geriatrics2019
Healthcare professionals' experiences of providing individualized nutritional care for Older People in hospital and home care: a qualitative study.
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- Nursing home staff's experiences and reflections regarding disordered eating among older adults: a focus group and vignette-based study.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Bridging the gap in patient care: utilization of nutrition risk screening tools in Kenyan referral hospitals.BMC research notes · 2026Article
- Putting patients first: when home-based care staff prioritise loyalty to patients above the system and themselves. An ethnographic study.BMC medical ethics · 2024Article
- Dialogue is a prerequisite for the nurse-patient relationship in nutritional care: A secondary analysis using the fundamentals of care framework.Scandinavian journal of caring sciences · 2022Article
- Evidence-based nutrition guidelines for cancer survivors in Europe: a call for action.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2022Article
- Balancing standardisation and individualisation in transitional care pathways: a meta-ethnography of the perspectives of older patients, informal caregivers and healthcare professionals.BMC health services research · 2022Article
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- Type of Care and Living Situation Are Associated with Nutritional Care but Not Nutritional Status of Older Persons Receiving Home Care.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundRecent studies indicate inadequate nutritional care practices in healthcare institutions and identify several barriers to perform individualized nutritional care to older persons. Organisation of care can become rigid and standardised, thus failing to be respectful of and responsive to each person's needs and preferences. There is limited research exploring health professionals' views on how structure of care allows them to individualize nutritional care to older persons. In this study we aim to explore how healthcare professionals' experience providing individualised nutritional care within the organisational frames of acute geriatric hospital care and home care.
methodsSemi-structured interviews with 23 healthcare professionals from hospital acute geriatric care and home care. Interviews were analyzed using thematic analysis.
resultsTwo main themes and six sub-themes emerged from the material. Theme 1: 'Meeting patients with complex nutritional problems' with the sub-themes: 'It is much more complex than just not eating' and 'seeing nutrition as a part of the whole'. Theme 2: 'The structure of the nutritional care', with the sub-themes: 'Nutritional routines: Much ado, but for what?', 'lack of time to individualize nutritional care', 'lack of interdisciplinary collaboration in nutritional care' and 'meeting challenging situations with limited resources in home care'.
conclusionsThe healthcare professionals described having a high focus on and priority of nutritional care when caring for older persons. They did however find it challenging to practice individualized nutritional care due to the complexity of the patients' nutritional problems and constraints in the way nutritional care was organised. By describing the challenges the healthcare professionals face when trying to individualize the nutritional care, this study may provide important knowledge to health professionals and policy makers on how to decrease the gap between older patients' preferences for care and nutritional care practice.
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