The nutritional rehabilitation of people with disabilities, impairment and handicap

Aim of the study: Approximately 780,000 handicapped live in Hungary. In 262 disabled person's home care 16,191 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 = 533, 45.8% male; 54.2% female; mean age 47.9+/-15.8) and used a questionnaire to record data about their nutritional parameters and health status. Re…