Health Care Professionals Welcome to the Health Care Professionals’ section.  In this section, you will find valuable tools to help you incorporate nutrition screening for elderly clients in your practice setting using the validated tool, the MNA®.   MNA® User Guide provides step-by-step directions for completing the MNA®. The guide includes explanations of each question and suggestions for training others to use the MNA®.  Detailed directions and pictures clearly explain how to perform and interpret anthropometric measurements in a variety of populations.

• MNA^® Screening Process describes the two-step process, including when to use the time-saving MNA^®-Short Form and when the full MNA^® is indicated.
  
  
• Interpreting the MNA^® Score provides an algorithm and practical suggestions for using the MNA^®score.  You can use the algorithm to quickly classify a person’s malnutrition risk.  Then by clicking on your client’s score, you are directed to evidence-based suggestions for providing nutrition care.

• Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment describes this multidisciplinary process that is used worldwide to identify geriatric patients who may be at risk of functional decline. The MNA^® is a common tool used in the comprehensive geriatric assessment.

• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) provides answers to your frequently asked questions on using the MNA^®.

Together, these tools will help you easily incorporate the MNA^® into your practice setting and identify geriatric clients who are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition.

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