Abstract
The majority of malnutrition (as undernutrition) in older adults originates in the community (1) and is still under-detected and under-treated (2). Work conducted by the Wessex Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) Nutrition in Older People Programme (2014-18) (3) identified a need for simple tools used by the wider workforce including volunteers, community workers and carers to identify and better manage malnutrition at an early stage. Based on the Patients Association Nutrition Checklist (with four key questions focussing on weight, unplanned weight loss, appetite and nutrition)(4), the ‘Nutrition Wheel’ was developed as a novel interactive tool to help identify risk of undernutrition in the older people in the community and provide appropriate nutritional guidance and signposting.
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