ArticleJournal of nursing management2021
The WeanCare nutritional intervention in institutionalized dysphagic older people and its impact on nursing workload and costs: A quasi-experimental study.
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- Co-designing a mealtime intervention integrating Spaced Retrieval and montessori-based activities for people with dementia living in nursing homes.Dementia (London, England) · 2026Article
- Clinical and Economic Impact in Dysphagia Management: A Preliminary Economic Evaluation for the WeanCare-Dysphameal Approach.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Healthcare Workers' Attitudes Toward Older Adults' Nutrition: A Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study in Italian Nursing Homes.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Quality of Life and non-motor symptoms Improvement in Parkinson's Disease through Nutritional Intervention: a Case Study.Journal of preventive medicine and hygiene · 2024Article
- Comparing Assessment Tools as Candidates for Personalized Nutritional Evaluation of Senior Citizens in a Nursing Home.Nutrients · 2021Article
- The WeanCare nutritional intervention in institutionalized dysphagic older people and its impact on nursing workload and costs: A quasi-experimental study.Journal of nursing management · 2021Article
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Abstract
aimThe aim of this study is to explore how a nutritional intervention that improves the biochemical and functional profile of dysphagic older people impacts on nursing workload and costs for nursing homes.
backgroundDysphagic institutionalized older people particularly at risk of malnutrition require more intensive support from nursing staff and higher costs for nursing homes.
methodThis is an open pre-post longitudinal multicentre quasi-experimental study without a control group.
resultsThere is a significant reduction in the number of enemas (from 3.51 to 1.11 enemas), with an average nursing workload reduction from 52 to 16 min per patient every month. Each nurse also spent 20 h less per patient every month spoon-feeding. This resulted in nursing staff cost savings.
conclusionsThe nutritional intervention led to a significantly better quality of life for the patients manifested through increased independence and social engagement. This reduced workload for nursing staff and costs for nursing home administrators. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING MANAGEMENT: Sensitive, targeted nutritional interventions have the potential to improve nursing home residents' quality of life and enable a more efficient use of resources. This study revealed reduced workload and cost savings due to less time spent administering enemas and spoon-feeding, in addition to reduced malnutritional consequences.
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