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Health Care Professionals
Welcome to the Health Care Professionals’ section. In this section, you will find valuable tools, including a new video, to help you incorporate nutrition screening for elderly clients in your practice setting using the validated tool, the MNA®.
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- MNA® User Guides provide step-by-step directions for completing the MNA®. The guides include 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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- MNA® Video demonstrates step-by-step directions for using the MNA in clinical practice to identify malnutrition in the elderly.
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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