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Lesley Carter: Nurses are key to preventing malnutrition in older people

More nursing care interventions and follow-up in the community after discharge from hospital would help older people avoid malnutrition and its disastrous spiral of ill health, says Age UK’s Lesley Carter
Posted 13 December 2017 - 12:48
 
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