Dehydration and Malnutrition in Residential Care: Recommendations for Strategies for Improving Practice Derived from a Scoping Review of Existing Policies and Guidelines

Preventing malnutrition and dehydration in older care home residents is a complex task, with both conditions remaining prevalent, despite numerous guidelines spanning several decades.This policy-mapping scoping review used snowballing search methods to locate publicly-available policies, reports and best practice guidelines relating to hydration an

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Mechanisms of Social Consolidation in the Network Society

During the last five years the world has seen the emergence of mass global and regional social movements outside of institutional structures representing open systems with a spontaneous nature.These social movements do not have any tangible hierarchy and leaders; information within the Hydraulic Air Stick movement activity is spread virally and mai

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Progress towards millennium development goal 1 in Latin America and the Caribbean: the importance of the choice of indicator for undernutrition

OBJECTIVE: To assess the effect of using stunting versus underweight as the indicator of child undernutrition for determining whether countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are on track to meet the component of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 1 pertaining to the eradication of hunger, namely to reduce undernutrition by half between 1990 and

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Brisk Walking for Elderly Individuals with Hypertension

One of the risk factors AEG BPE742320M SenseCook Pyrolytic Oven With ProSight Plus Touch Cont for cardiovascular disease is hypertension.According to the 2017 globalburden of disease report, it was indicated that the number of individuals worldwide suffering fromhypertension will have reached 1.56 billion by 2025, indicating a 60% rise in its globa

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Multisystemic manifestations in a cohort of 75 classical Ehlers-Danlos syndrome patients: natural history and nosological perspectives

Abstract Background The Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS) are rare connective tissue disorders consisting of 13 subtypes with overlapping features including joint hypermobility, skin and generalized connective tissue fragility.Classical EDS (cEDS) is principally caused by heterozygous COL5A1 or COL5A2 variants and rarely by the COL1A1 p.(Arg312Cys) sub

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