The modern nutritional rehabilitation of people with disabilities

Aim of the study: Approximately 600,000 handicapped live in Hungary. In 283 disabled person's home care more than 16,000 of them. The authors analyzed their nutritional status, nutrition and catering in a representative sample. Patients, methods: The authors used the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) developed by the Malnutrition Advisory Group (MAG), for the screening of the nutritional status of Hungarian handicapped patients who live in social institutions (n=377, 46.7% male; 53.3% female; mean age 45.4±13.6) and used a questionnaire to record data about their nutritional parameters and health stat…