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Geriatric Nursing

Volume 14, Issue 3, May–June 1993, Pages 156-159
Geriatric Nursing

Weight loss and weight gain in a nursing home: A prospective study: To intervene early, a multidisciplinary team attempted to determine the major causes of weight loss and weight gain

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Summary

We studied a nursing home population to delineate the frequency of weight loss and weight gain, the categories of loss and gain, and the factors or causes that contribute to losses and gains. Acute illness was determined to be the major cause of weight loss at the nursing home, followed by psychiatric/psychologic disorders and dementia. Such facts encourage replication in other nursing home populations to prompt attention to weight loss and weight gain.

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BARBARA AYN WRIGHT, RN, CGNP, CFNP, is in private practice in otolaryngology with Andrew Pulliam, MD, in Sarasota, Florida.

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